Olivia Sharpe, one of the cast members of docu-series Love on the Spectrum, told audiences that it was difficult being a woman on the autism spectrum due to the lack of gendered diagnostic criteria – and clinical psychologist Vicki Bitsika ...

EducationReview · How a new, simple technology can help children with learning disabilities in the classroom: Podcast Dimi Stathopoulos is an occupational and speech therapist who has a lot of experience working with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention ...

Last week's damning revelations about the treatment of some students with a disability in Australia's school system involved tales of seclusion, segregation and even abuse. While the disability royal commission heard of a few horrific stories only, there are doubtless many more ...

This year, the international journal Autism replaced its cover art of overlapping grey and red puzzle pieces with scattered circles, after a team of editors decided that puzzles evoked negative connotations of the disorder. Yet autism is puzzling: we still don't even know what causes it. Autism assumptions ...

Despite Hollywood's (increasing) portrayal of brilliantly successful autistic savants – from Rain Man to The Good Doctor – the reality of employment for those with autism is the opposite. ABS data suggests just 40 per cent of people with autism work, compared to ...

Cody is just over three-and-a-half years old. He only started using recognisable words about a year ago, and still can’t string them together. Increasingly, he screams and cries when he doesn’t get his way, like when he is offered food ...