Children with autism are usually taught basic skills, language and social behavior through an intense method of reinforcement and repetition called applied behavior analysis (ABA). Much like the ...

States are no strangers to classroom standards. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in 2002, the federal government required states to create teacher standards and place highly ...

This article originally appeared on Spectrum and is republished here with permission. There’s no single way to teach children with autism. Regardless of which method a school adopts, though, it’s no ...

Blue's Clues is one of Jacob's favorite shows even though it's for “little kids.” The 10-year-old shows a visitor his coloring that looks like the familiar notebook used on the Nickelodeon children's ...

“It’s for their own good” is the well-intentioned but ill-conceived mantra of many parents. Parents often approach autistic children with an agenda—they want the child to do something differently, ...

A new study proposes a new learning method for people with autism that may accelerate the learning process and even significantly improve capabilities in terms of visual perception. According to the ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Jim Elliott—a long-time reader contributor to Notes and one of the core ...