Person-first language has been the word choice in mental health for a long time. Yet, the neurodiversity movement embraces identity-first language. When do we use which?

Personal Perspective: Navigating sensory sensitivity? Your journey to self-advocacy and deeper understanding starts with a sensory lens. Here are five practices for cultivating it.

Personal Perspective: Autism research emphasizes “independence over perfection.” Remember, whatever your child cannot do by graduation, someone else might have to do for them.

Raising teens with special needs is a dance and a balance between knowing your child's abilities and challenging them.

Self-harm may affect as many as 33 percent of autistic people, yet the types and patterns of self-harm often differ from neurotypical populations. How can we effectively intervene?

We are often taught that panic attacks last just 15-20 minutes. Is this true?

Does your child have autism? Need inspiration? Learn the triumphant story of the ASD Band.

There may be important nuances in disordered eating among neurodivergent people, including when disordered eating is considered a clinical concern.

It is important that caregivers and educators not make inferences about the social motivation of children with autism from how they perceive their nonverbal cues.

Mindstorms like meltdowns and shutdowns are common experiences, especially for neurodivergent people. Here are five strategies for getting through one or providing support.

A Personal Perspective: Here's a card-based metaphor to explore autism, bottom-up processing, and intense world theory.

Employee experience, or EX, matters more than ever. By embracing how we all think differently, EX can be transformed for everybody.

The existence of savants pushes us to ask whether it is possible for neurotypical individuals to tap into extraordinary abilities.

"Cyberball" experiments can help children and parents better understand and utilize cognitive-behavior therapy focused on promoting emotional self-regulation.

A Personal Perspective: Autism Acceptance Month is an opportunity to celebrate our differences and recognize the contribution that neurodivergent individuals make to the world.

Celebrating neurodiversity is not just for schools and therapists. It's about all of us coming together as a community to appreciate all ways of experiencing the world and showing kindness.

How to empathize with people who have different cognitive styles.

If I were just autistic or just broke, I would have been fine. But I was both, so I started my new academic job sleep-deprived. Now I teach how to make inclusion intersectional.

With growing awareness of neurodiversity and an increase in neurodivergent individuals seeking therapy, how can psychotherapists accommodate the diverse needs of neurodivergents?

There is an unfortunate tendency to assume that empathy is an individual trait, but this ignores the way that empathy works (and fails) in interactions.

How can leaders help solve the problem of neurodiversity exclusion and other forms of workplace inequities? Addressing the familiarity bias can be a crucial starting point.

Nina Meehan, an autistic nonspeaker, was locked in silence for her first 16 years until she learned a method called spelling to communicate.

With the release of the 2024 World Happiness Report, let's shine a light on how well-being is perceived and experienced by individuals with disabilities.

A Personal Perspective: Although moms of autistic kids and their hardships often take the spotlight, the experiences of autistic mothers are also important. 

Neurodivergent individuals have 43 percent faster processing abilities than neurotypical individuals when visual processing mechanisms are stimulated.

A Personal Perspective: The majority of autistic women describe having some history of sexual abuse. We should begin looking at how we can stop this alarming trend.

Tabletop role-playing games are used worldwide to help connect with clients and teach therapeutic skills. Learn about these games and how you can use them in practice.

Could photography boost autistic voices and enhance the therapy experience?

Supporting children on the autism spectrum in managing meltdowns is a common challenge for children and their families.

A Ukrainian autism therapist strives to help her son and other autistic children amid the great challenges posed by the war.