As a disabled autistic scientist, I often find myself reading research articles and studies that depict autistic individuals as incapable, aloof, uninterested and unempathetic. For decades, the ...
What if everything we thought we knew about autistic communication was wrong? For decades, autism has been described through a lens of deficit. Communication differences were framed as “deficits.” ...
A team of researchers from three institutions has identified two biologically distinct subtypes of autism, each defined by opposite patterns of brain-wide communication. One subtype is marked by ...
Alex Morgan, a journalist who began her career as an intern at the East Lothian Courier more than 40 years ago, discovered in ...