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 ...

The therapy is based on applied behavior analysis, a well-studied autism treatment in which a clinician uses flash cards depicting faces with different emotions. Although this therapy has proven ...

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD ... Ordinarily, therapists use things like flash cards of faces to teach ASD kids what different emotions look like. Unfortunately, though, this ...

Facing up to others' emotions: No evidence of autism‐related deficits in metacognitive awareness of emotion recognition. Autism Research , 2022; 15 (8): 1508 DOI: 10.1002/aur.2781 ...

There is a persistent stereotype that people with autism are individuals who lack empathy and cannot understand emotion. It’s true that many people with autism don’t show emotion in ways that ...

It can be difficult to socialize and make friends for many children with autism. Often that's because reading body language and others' emotions doesn't always come easily. Many of us seem to ...

New research shows for the first time that adults with autism can recognize complex emotions such as regret and relief in others as easily as those without the condition. New research shows for ...

Due to the social struggles that accompany autism, there’s a misconception that people with it lack empathy — that is, they can’t understand others’ thoughts and feelings. A new study ...