The Autism Speaks Visual Supports and Autism Spectrum Disorder tool kit provides guidance on how to utilize pictures, photographs among visual supports to improve communication for children ...

Research investigating how the brain responds to visual patterns in people with autism has shown that sensory responses change between childhood and adulthood.

People with autism can have difficulties communicating, making it a challenge to answer questions or describe their symptoms to medical staff – so problems can be harder to diagnose.

People with autism often have difficulty in attributing mental states to others and this is thought to be one of the main causes of their struggle to know how other people feel. This may be ...

Autism affects the way a person’s brain and body work. Someone with the disorder might have trouble speaking, make strange sounds or not talk at all.