Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

My son, Keith, skinny as a beanpole and fast as lightning, loves his life, as we all do. But unlike most of us, he cannot meet even his most basic needs. He’s 25 years old, non-verbal and severely ...

Imagine having a conversation where every gesture and glance feels like a test. You're juggling eye contact, facial expressions, and tone of voice, all while trying to keep up with the words. You ...

For the first fourteen years of his life, Viraj Dhanda, who has autism and apraxia, was non-verbal, non-communicative, and assumed to be intellectually disabled. It wasn't until his father, Sumit, ...