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(Photo: Denine Davies)Mason has never had a comple...  ...very difficult experience for him because he has autism . But when Mason came with his mom into a barber s...

(Image: Mary Beth Nelson)Sesame Street Workshop wa...  ...reet Workshop wants to reach out to children with autism and their parents. It now offers an array of reso...  ...children how to interact with other kids who have autism . People magazine talked to Sesame Street executiv...

Therapists didn't think much of Jacob Barnett's future. But his mother saw him demonstrate a prodigious memory, pattern recognition skills and an intuitive grasp of astrophysics:One day, his mom took him stargazing. A fe...

Spending a few minutes with Santa at a mall or a C...  ...eat joy for young children. But for children with autism , a busy setting with bright lights and loud noise...

This is Bandit, a robot specially designed by a te...  .... Yet there is increasing evidence that kids with autism respond more naturally to machines than they do t...  ...ychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the director of the Autism Research Center at the University of Cambridge in...  ...versity of Cambridge in Eng...

What is a geek? For many people the term is perjor...  ...s. But what the hey does this all have to do with autism ? That's what researchers Simon Baron-Cohen and Sa...  ...re more likely to have children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Most revealing were statistics...  ...upations:12.5 percent of f...