Technology is one of those things that really is not going away, and in fact, it is only going to play an ever more important role in our lives. This is certainly true when ot comes to helping ...

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

Heavy, expensive and huge text-to-speech machines may be a thing of the past for parents of autistic children or for families caring for a loved one with Lou Gehrig's Disease, Down Syndrome, cerebral ...

For many families of minimally verbal autistic (MVA) children, communication often feels like an uphill battle. But now, thanks to a new AI-powered app developed by researchers at KAIST in ...

Ed-Dee G. Williams wouldn’t describe himself as a hero. Yet, that’s exactly what the Celtics—and the 19,600 fans at TD Garden—would call him. Williams, an assistant professor at the Boston College ...

Popular communication methods for nonspeaking autistic people have ignited a fierce debate over what counts as evidence of ...

A new non-invasive brain stimulation technique known as accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) improves social communication at one month follow up and has a favorable safety profile ...

As autism diagnoses continue rising across the United States, broader conversations around developmental support, education, and long-term care are becoming increasingly complex. 1 in 31 ...

A communication board designed to help children with autism express themselves has been installed at Eisenhower Park in West ...