Autism is often diagnosed at a young age. The average age listed by the CDC is 4.5 years old. Because of that, many people in the autism community feel it's often forgotten that kids with autism grow ...

COLUMBIA - The Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment received a grant for speech-generating devices that can help kids with autism and complex communication needs to express their needs and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (PIX11) — April is Autism ...

A groundbreaking children’s television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. “Carl the Collector,” which made ...

Autism is clinically defined by impairments in social communication, leading to assumptions that individuals with autism are less effective communicators. But a new study challenges this notion. The ...

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...