Why your child with autism is “brutally honest” in social settings At dinner, a relative asks how the new haircut looks in ...

When I began working with autistic adults, there was only one book I could find on the topic. It held a very narrow perspective on what autistic adults needed. Over the last 10 years, autism advocates ...

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 ...

If you live with young children, there's a good chance you've been on the receiving end of a child yelling, screaming, crying, throwing or hitting things. But how do parents know what is typical and ...

When your child’s meltdowns feel endless, exhausting and worrying, it’s natural to ask: is this normal? Clinical psychologist Dr Jo Mueller explains why long meltdowns can happen, especially for ...

My daughter Carys was two when she discovered the devastating injustice of gravity. She’d been carefully stacking wooden blocks into a tower. It was higher than any structure she’d built before, but ...

Since the start of the full-scale war, the issue of autism spectrum disorders among children has become an increasingly ...

When it comes to autism, few questions spark as much debate as how best to support autistic people with the greatest needs. This prompted The Lancet medical journal to commission a group of ...