Mattel's new Barbie with autism has garnered mixed feelings from people within the autism community. Why?

Not everyone is happy with the new doll, but autistic people and advocates have reason to cheer.

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, ...

Autistic people are so rarely depicted in media and entertainment, it's no wonder most people don't really understand much ...

The new autistic Barbie joins an existing line of diverse dolls, including those with Down syndrome, diabetes and more. See ...

Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.

It took nearly six months (and 16,000 hot glue gun sticks) for Arizona schoolkids to recreate the massive Army machine, which ...

The Barbie includes flexible elbows and wrists to acknowledge stimming, slightly shifted eyes, noise-canceling headphones and ...

Mother Bridget Wood tells us why she decided not to give in, but to fight to help her daughter and other young autistic ...

Mattel’s autistic Barbie signals a wider shift in the global toy industry, with inclusion and neurodiversity increasingly ...

Anil and Shalini Babbar said they would not have known about the abuse their teenager was enduring at the home in upstate New ...