Autistic people deserve better than a headline. Yet a widely circulated claim that autistic individuals have an average life expectancy of just 54 years continues to echo across media outlets, ...

Researchers at Saint Joseph’s University are collaborating with Bancroft, a New Jersey nonprofit, to pilot AI technology with people in assisted living communities. A Bancroft resident answered a ...

Many autistic adults experience mental health difficulties. Research shows that autistic people are more likely than neurotypical people to experience emotion dysregulation, having trouble feeling and ...

The Advancing the System of Care for Autistic Older Adults (ASC) study explores how health and mental health conditions emerge and change for autistic adults as they grow older. The study uses ...

This study is for caregivers of minimally-speaking or non-speaking autistic children or adults. Caregivers must understand sufficient English to complete the online study. The person you care for must ...

It’s not hard to make some really meaningful tweaks that would improve the lives of a lot of autistic people. And before you begin to wonder why this would ever be relevant to your life, consider that ...

89 to 97 per cent of autistic adults aged 40+ years are undiagnosed in the UK, according to the largest review of its kind which was conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience ...

One in 36 children in the United States has autism, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — but many don’t learn they’re on the spectrum until adulthood. Those who grow up ...