The proportion of children with autism considered to be minimally verbal in a study depends on the criteria researchers use to identify them.

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.

Five years after its latest revision, the manual used to diagnose autism is back under scrutiny, as evidence suggests it excludes some people on the spectrum.

Communication problems have always been considered a core feature of autism. Yet there are substantial and wide-ranging differences in how people with autism communicate.

People on the spectrum often have subtle problems using language or making facial expressions. Pinpointing where those difficulties originate may help ease their social communication.

A diagnosis of social communication disorder only keeps people from a community and resources they desperately want and need.

A single gene, OTUD7A, may account for most of the features seen in people missing a segment of chromosome 15 known as 15q13.3.

Language problems in children with autism may be partially rooted in an inability to integrate sight and sound when other people talk.

Folic acid, a B vitamin, may lower autism risk and ease features of the condition.

Children with autism who speak few or no words improve in their verbal abilities after their parents learn to engage them in conversation during play.