Taline and Harout Sagharian are parents of Christopher, 11, and Natalie. They joined a lawsuit to win special autism therapy in public school for their son.

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived—or "pass"—as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe ...

If this difference in face recognition occurs at an earlier age, which she now hopes to study, Dawson says that it could potentially be used to reliably identify autism early in children.

Autism can be diagnosed using eye trackers, University of Waterloo researchers say Neuro-typical children focus on a person's eye while autistic children look at the mouth, study finds ...