Maintaining eye contact can sometimes be difficult for autistic folks. Practice and therapy can help, but they’re not the only way to build relationships. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a term used ...

Children with autism are believed to face difficulties in social interactions, besides also lacking the ability to be attentive while interacting with others. In fact, eye contact avoidance is a key ...

SHANGHAI — “Never looked at any person’s face.” That’s how Leo Kanner first described children with autism in 1943, establishing a diagnostic marker that has persisted for eight decades. Ask almost ...

Most families of children with autism may face long wait times to diagnose their child with the disorder, and once a diagnosis is made, it sometimes may not be definitive. But now, two studies ...

A groundbreaking study led by researchers at East China Normal University’s Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Education reveals that autistic children exhibit social attention patterns ...

At 11 years old, I stood next to my resource instructor as we worked through the tasks on my behavior plan. My task: three seconds of eye contact. "This isn't like real life," I thought. Making eye ...

* Parents, siblings without autism have eye differences * Study could lead to new treatments for autism By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Close relatives of people ...

For parents, an autism diagnosis for their child is life-changing, often following months of uncertainty. Questions about eye contact, social responsiveness, and developmental progress lead families ...