Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. When we try to learn something new, our curiosity ...

There was some backlash to Mattel's newly introduced autistic Barbie. But one doll could never represent an entire community.

Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to ...

Autistic people deserve better than a headline. Yet a widely circulated claim that autistic individuals have an average life expectancy of just 54 years continues to echo across media outlets, ...

Barbie is launching its first autistic doll in an effort to represent how individuals with autism spectrum disorder ...