Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, ...

Social skills training is often used to address the challenges that autistic children have with social interaction and social communication. Such training can provide a safe and structured way of ...

Every parent just wants their child to make friends, succeed, and be happy. But for many parents of children with autism, these goals are more difficult to achieve, especially in social realms where ...

On parent-reporting measures, girls with autism seem to struggle more than boys with performing routine tasks like getting up and dressed or making small talk, even when the study group is normalized ...

Treatment with the hormone oxytocin improves social skills in some children with autism, suggest results from a small clinical trial. The results appeared today in the Proceedings of the National ...

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