Emotion regulation is a universal challenge for adults and children alike and the primary reason why individuals seek psychological support. Autistic children’s emotion regulation is impacted by ...

Advocacy groups and researchers suggest measures to prevent children from wandering away from school or caregivers and into ...

We are interested in describing the specific ways that caregivers ‘design’ their talk so that their autistic children are included as participants in the interaction, without having to rely on spoken ...

Why delayed diagnosis of autism in young girls puts their mental health at risk.

University of Houston psychology researcher Jason Griffin, who has pioneered new ways of measuring eye movements to understand autism spectrum disorder, is reporting that children with autism focus on ...

Neurodiversity advocates have long argued that autistic brains are differently wired. Now, new evidence shows they are right. Researchers have found atypical numbers of brain cells in two key areas of ...

When an individual has autism and ADHD, the challenges of living in a culture that is not equipped to embrace neurodiversity ...

The opposite phenomenon, sensory hypo-responsiveness, occurs when a person does not react strongly enough to sensory stimuli.

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Recent decades have seen a year-on-year increase in clinical diagnoses of autism. Unfortunately, autism and temperature regulation problems often go hand in hand, especially in summer.