For children with autism spectrum disorder and with an intellectual disability, the options for improving communication and social skills are limited. Talking therapies and behavioural programmes can ...

Chinese researchers report that a five‑day course of magnetic brain stimulation slightly boosted social communication in young autistic children, including many with intellectual disability. But with ...

A new non-invasive brain stimulation technique known as accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) improves social communication at one month follow up and has a favourable safety profile ...

Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people ...

In the academic year so far, the proportion of children who are “persistently absent” from schools in England – missing at least 10% of school sessions – stands at 19.5%. This is up from last year – ...

A new non-invasive brain stimulation technique known as accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) improves social communication at one month follow up and has a favorable safety profile ...