A pioneering interdisciplinary study has shown that how young children play a simple iPad game could support early ...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people’s brains develop and function, impacting behaviour, communication and socialising. It can also involve differences in the way you move ...

Scientists at the University of Strathclyde have developed a video game that could detect autism in children aged ...

A recent study by physical therapy professor Anjana Bhat found cognitive benefits to whole-body movement in children with autism. Step into physical therapy professor Anjana Bhat’s colorful Move 2 ...

Sounds, Voices and Rhythms for Autistic Minds hosts sensory-friendly entertainment experiences for neurodivergent children.” ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children’s eyes move when they turn their heads. They found that kids who carry a variant of a gene ...

Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical ...

The study reveals that children with potential autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show a significant preference for predictable visual stimuli, spending more time observing them than typically developing ...

Hundreds of people turned out for a festive event to celebrate inclusion and diversity. It focused on making holiday fun ...

Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine ...

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 36 children. That is nearly the equivalent of one child per classroom. This number has risen in recent years with ...