Mattel is welcoming the first-ever Barbie doll with Autism Spectrum Disorder to its Barbie Fashionistas collection.

Social media users are praising Mattel for its 'accurate and real' new Barbie doll representing autism. The US toy manufacturer unveiled the first-of-its-kind doll on Sunday (January 11) as it hit the shelves globally on Monday (January 12).

In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, identified autism as a separate disorder from schizophrenia in young children. Kanner called his newly identified disorder early infantile autism. The sample of children he studied was ...

Autism spectrum disorder has yet to be linked to a single cause, due to the wide range of its symptoms and severity. However, a recent study suggests a promising new approach to finding answers, one that could lead to advances in the study of other ...

Portrait of an adorable little boy wearing a suit and standing near a chalkboard with a colorful brain sketch. Concept of child's development A new study from The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) documents that visible social-communication ...

Narcissism and autistic spectrum disorders tend to co-occur in families. I regard narcissism as a listening disorder, that is as a difficulty hearing and responding positiively to others' perspectives. Sam Vaknin however, who describes himself as a ...