Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often find it difficult to gauge other people's emotions based on their facial expressions – this can in turn lead to problems in communicating with those ...

Children with autism are in 'in tune' with mom's feelings like other children Study finds no differences in children's ability to recognize facial emotion of familiar faces Date: March 25, 2019 Source ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania State Police on Monday unveiled a new informational card for people on the autism spectrum to use during any encounter with officers. The card is meant to allow ...

A new study has challenged the long-held assumption that autistic people are emotionally stunted, finding that, in fact, people with autism experience complex emotions. It’s hoped these findings will ...

A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or ...

The inability to regulate emotion in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) appears to be due to impaired brain activity, new research shows. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans ...

There is a persistent stereotype that people with autism are individuals who lack empathy and cannot understand emotion. It’s true that many people with autism don’t show emotion in ways that people ...