For more than 30 years, I’ve been researching autism. It all started, when my son, at the age of 2 and a half, was diagnosed (no, not...

The placebo effect can be defined as the power of the mind and the unconscious to heal in response to something (whether sugar pills or...

Autistic people have unique ways of communicating and interacting that are rooted in their unique ways of thinking and experiencing the...

Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...

The Intense World Syndrome and other ‘sensory theories’ Although already in the very first descriptions of autistic children, researchers...

To speak (another language) or not to speak (with an autistic child)? Typically developing children in multilingual families tend to pick...

In autism, there is laughing/giggling and ‘laughing/giggling’. There can be numerous reasons to laugh, which are difficult to understand...

Not much is known about the language trajectories of non-verbal and minimally verbal children yet. However, the number of research...

Why can’t my child speak? It was estimated that about one third (Bryson 1996) to one half (Lord & Paul 1997) of autistic people never...