Motor difficulties forecast language troubles in autism
Children with autism who speak few words and have trouble manipulating objects tend to remain minimally verbal as they reach adulthood.
Children with autism who speak few words and have trouble manipulating objects tend to remain minimally verbal as they reach adulthood.
A comprehensive review has found no scientific basis for a controversial technique that supposedly helps autistic people communicate.
Some autistic children’s communication and motor skills begin to decelerate between 9 and 18 months — years before the average age of diagnosis.
New assessments of the subtle motor difficulties that characterize autism could improve autistic children’s lives and teach us a lot about the condition.
Motor problems in autistic infants may parallel those in infants with other developmental conditions.
A two-belt treadmill attached to a specialized display suggests that people with autism have a distinct walking style.
Links between sensory and motor brain networks may be unusually weak in individuals with autism.
Scientists are finding new ways to test cognition in autistic individuals who speak little or not at all.
Autistic people who have trouble speaking or moving often do poorly on standard tests of intelligence. Newer methods promise to uncover their abilities — and improve our understanding of autism itself.
A new method enables researchers to plot activity in the zebrafish brain’s system for spatial orientation and balance.