Many children with autism struggle to find the words to express how they feel. But when it comes to music, it’s an entirely different situation. Evidence suggests children with autism may enjoy music ...

A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or ...

Teaching emotions has been part of autism curriculums for decades. I remember dated flashcards with pictures of faces and asking students to identify which emotion was being expressed on the card ...

A new study has challenged the long-held assumption that autistic people are emotionally stunted, finding that, in fact, people with autism experience complex emotions. It’s hoped these findings will ...

A few days ago Carnegie Mellon University imaging expert Marcel Just published a very interesting study with the heady title, Identifying Autism from Neural Representations of Social Interactions: ...

Adults with autism are only slightly less accurate at reading people's facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, according to new research. Recent studies show we may need to revise widely ...

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Dawn R. Mitchell White is affiliated with the University of South Florida as a doctoral student in Music Education. Many children with autism struggle to find the words to express how they feel. But ...