Researchers say they are unimpressed with a study that underpins a tech company’s new digital therapy for autism.

Autistic people have trouble making facial expressions appropriate to the circumstances.

Toddlers with autism show less fear when confronted with something scary than do typical children or those with developmental delay.

An app may help people with autism manage anxiety, adults on the spectrum share the items they use to self-soothe, and autistic children can pick up new words by overhearing them.

From an app to diagnose autism to a crowdsourced project to map its prevalence, Dennis Wall is brimming with ambitious ideas. But his execution of these ideas leaves something to be desired, his critics say.

People with autism use different brain regions than typical people do to distinguish between the scents of familiar and unfamiliar individuals.

Language difficulties and emotional challenges such as anxiety or aggression in children with autism at age 3 predict their social skills at around age 5.