A State College man on Thursday received the maximum sentence for what federal prosecutors called sexually predatory behavior ...

Defense attorney Helan A. Stolinas argued for a shorter sentence, noting her client provided a detailed statement ...

A State College man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Thursday to three decades in prison for what a federal prosecutor described as a manipulative and devious scheme to sexually exploit autistic and ...

Imagine having a conversation where every gesture and glance feels like a test. You're juggling eye contact, facial expressions, and tone of voice, all while trying to keep up with the words. You ...

Many participants described being misread, unfairly judged, ignored, or treated as untrustworthy simply because their nonverbal cues didn't match expectations. To cope, some autistic people try to ...

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 ...

‘My son can’t put a sentence together or express his needs, but he has this amazing capacity to learn and a thirst for ...

Staff at a group home on Long Island allegedly inflicted physical and emotional abuse on a nonverbal, autistic man from Queens over the course of two years, and tried to cover it up when a video ...

Verbal behavior interventions grounded in applied behaviour analysis have emerged as central to supporting language and social communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. These ...