Sarah Foster, a doctoral candidate in the UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), is this year’s Norman G. Pauling Endowed Fellowship recipient.

We reassert the Double Empathy Problem (DEP) as a sociological account of autistic-non-autistic (and more broadly, between individuals with differing dispositio...

Lynn Blakey, who played in the bands Let's Active, Oh-OK and Tres Chicas, has died.

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Non-autistic adults often harbor negative attitudes about autism and show a reluctance to interact with autistic people. For autistic people with multiple marginalized identities, the compounding e...

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A growing body of research suggests that the behaviours and experiences of autistic and non-autistic people are influenced by whether they are interacting with someone of the same or different diagnos...

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Previous research has demonstrated that autistic people transmit verbal information as effectively as non-autistic people; however, when autistic and non-autistic people interact less information is t...

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Why autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha

Background Some autistic children exhibit behavior that caregivers, clinicians, and researchers consider problematic. However, there is little consensus about the types of behaviors that should be t...

Psychology doctoral student Sarah Foster, who is autistic, is the corresponding author of a study that examined four-person group interactions among neurotypical, autistic and mixed groups of individu...

The newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists (160 members and counting) today issued a statement in response to remarks and actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department...

Purpose of Review Inclusive research practices are important for neurodevelopmental studies, facilitating the involvement of community members throughout the research process. Highlighting this value,...