Through her “Soul of Autism” project, Erica Bacon is sharing stories and bringing awareness to the diversity within the ...

Recent research suggests rates of the condition in both sexes may be equal – so why have so few women been diagnosed in the ...

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There is a real shift happening on social media toward transparency. People are naming burnout, trauma, disability, grief... things that used to stay hidden. That matters. Visibility matters. But ...

Is the rise in late diagnoses of autism in "high masking" individuals, especially in women, due to social media influences or ...

Melissa Chabot's 8-year-old son, Owen, is creative, has a great memory and smiles a lot. His specialty is clocks, she said. He uses construction paper, tape, glue and markers to create cuckoo clocks, ...

Individuals with autism interpret information, emotions, and sensory input differently than the neurotypical population. Although behaviour changes such as less eye contact or repeated movements are ...

Memantine, a drug approved for Alzheimer’s disease, was associated with significant improvement in social functioning in some children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without ...