Signs & Symptoms

Autistic people’s ability to understand another person’s thinking does not diminish with age, as it does for non-autistic people.

Autistic people who have trouble identifying their emotions are also likely to have anxiety, depression and problems with social communication.

A new test can measure the language skills of autistic children of any verbal ability, at almost any age.

Neurotypical adults change how they view social scenes over time in a way that autistic adults do not, reflecting different underlying mechanisms of social attention.

Autistic people have distinct patterns of brain development, which sometimes result in differences in brain structure. Here’s what we know about those differences.

The more children with autism tune in to and communicate with others as toddlers, the stronger their conversation skills are later in childhood.

A new telehealth test offers researchers a way to detect signs of atypical behavior from afar and could help more families participate in autism studies and clinical trials.

Unlike typical toddlers, those with autism tend not to share experiences involving sound — dancing to music with their parents, for example, or calling attention to the source of a sound.

Extremely preterm babies later diagnosed with autism tend to show steep declines in development, a pattern that could flag them for intervention as early as 6 months of age.