Iffle and Piffle the sloths, the Insights about Autism language mascots Source: Insights about Autism Language is a powerful tool; it can be used to describe the plain, the profound, and the profane.

Speaking more than one language may benefit children’s executive function — especially those with autism spectrum disorder, a recent analysis suggests. The study, published in Autism Research, looked ...

Lorenzo Miodus-Santini an 11-year-old sixth-grader from Princeton, who was classified as autistic at only 13 months old, was never a big talker. As an infant he didn't babble or coo. When he was a ...

In the decades since the "clinical" definitions of autism in the 1980s, many have been advocating to understand autism as a normal part of the neurodiversity spectrum rather than as a "problem" to be ...

As an influential federal autism committee considers moving to “neutral, strengths-based” language, some advocates are pushing back arguing that stripping words will merely “sanitize” the realities ...