Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. When we try to learn something new, our curiosity ...

If your child’s pediatrician hands you a questionnaire and says the results “raise some concerns,” what that really means is that your child needs further evaluation. Unfortunately, most families are ...

While existing tools represent decades of clinical and research development, they share common limitations: nearly all rely on subjective clinical observation, caregiver report, or clinician ...

If you're autistic, you're more likely to have a learning disability than the general public. In fact, around 30% of autistic people also have a learning disability. But being autistic doesn't mean ...

As a researcher in autism and education and a former secondary school teacher, it took me a while to realise that autistic school staff were rarely included in conversations about inclusion and ...