Research on language development in autism has rarely included Deaf children, despite evidence that modality and parental hearing status shape the input autistic children receive Background Research ...

As a psychologist as well as a linguist, I am fascinated by the idea of how music and language can shape our brain, and how our brain attunes to musical and speech sounds differently. I study this ...

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, and approximately half develop more complex language, according to a new ...

Summary: Researchers demonstrated that the brains of teenagers with autism handle the sounds of unfamiliar voices in a fundamentally different way. Unlike their neurotypical peers, adolescents on the ...