Imagine having a conversation where every gesture and glance feels like a test. You're juggling eye contact, facial expressions, and tone of voice, all while trying to keep up with the words. You ...

Many participants described being misread, unfairly judged, ignored, or treated as untrustworthy simply because their nonverbal cues didn't match expectations. To cope, some autistic people try to ...

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 ...

Staff at a group home on Long Island allegedly inflicted physical and emotional abuse on a nonverbal, autistic man from Queens over the course of two years, and tried to cover it up when a video ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

PARK HILLS, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) – A 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child died at a Missouri day care on Friday, according to officials. The death happened at Poppy’s Playhouse in Park Hills, Missouri, ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - A Berkeley County Schools parent of a nonverbal child with autism says she feels like she’s been slapped in the face after her child’s substitute teacher was accused of ...

Verbal behavior interventions grounded in applied behaviour analysis have emerged as central to supporting language and social communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. These ...