April marks Autism Awareness Month, a time to shine a light on the experiences and contributions of individuals on the autism spectrum. From a young age up, I’ve always felt different from other ...

Symptoms of the condition vary from person to person, but there are a few feelings and habits to note. View Entire Post › ...

Over the course of a decades-long career, I had a number of fraught conversations with parents who desperately wanted their ...

Comments by U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have mobilized the autism community to dispel misconceptions about ...

Transformative Learning theorists John Dirkx and Edward Taylor emphasize that deep change requires emotional engagement.

After 10 years of being a parent of an autistic child, there are many things that would have helped if I had just known it ...

Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the study found that while individuals with autism express emotions like everyone else, their facial expressions may be too subtle for the human eye to detect.

The education of autistic children and young people in western societies has been heavily influenced by a medicalized understanding of autism ... educational map that charts the learner's current ...

Kids with ADHD have the same feelings as people without the condition. Joy, anger, fear, sadness -- the list goes on. Their emotions are just stronger, happen more often, and last longer.

Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the study found that while individuals with autism express emotions like everyone else, their facial expressions may be too subtle for the human eye to detect.

General adaptation syndrome (GAS) describes the three-stage response your body goes through when under stress: alarm reaction (also called fight-or-flight), resistance (where your body recovers), and ...