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 ...

We not only observe other people's emotions, but also subconsciously mirror them." But not everyone finds this easy to do. "People with autism or social anxiety find it harder to understand the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...