Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect a person’s life in several ways. For example, ASD can affect the way someone communicates, interacts with others, and ...

The Autism Resource Center reopened this month at Lancaster Public Library with new resources and a layout to better accommodate patrons on the autism spectrum. “The collection was never unavailable,” ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (December 1, 2011) – Autism Speaks, North America's largest autism science and advocacy organization today released the Visual Supports and Autism Spectrum Disorder tool kit providing ...

A new study published reports that social deficits in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with early structural and connectivity traits particularly in the visual ...

UNC School of Medicine researchers used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual processing system in the brains of infants who went on to be diagnosed with autism. CHAPEL HILL, ...

The way people with autism see and process the body language of others could be preventing them from gaging people's feelings, according to new research. The way people with autism see and process the ...

Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the difficulties experienced by a child with autism, according to our recent research. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory ...

Early signs Children who go on to develop autism have a heightened ability to pick up fine visual details from as early as nine months of age. People with autism are known to have enhanced visual ...

NHMRC ECR Fellow in Autism, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University Children with autism are often described as “visual learners” and said to “think in pictures”. Accordingly, ...

New research shows that brain changes in the size, white matter integrity and functional connectivity of the visual processing systems of six-month olds are evident well before they show symptoms of ...