Art Based Therapy or ABT is a non-verbal form of therapy which helps an autistic child to express and communicate through art. Autistic children cannot communicate like others.

Autistic children cannot pick up self-care tasks – dressing, self-feeding, using toilet and others – by watching and imitating. They do not make eye-to-eye contact and have a single-track ...

Iris Grace may have autism, but that doesn’t stop her from making remarkable paintings. The five-year-old girl from Leicestershire, England, began painting as a way to help her with speech therapy.

A 15-year-old autistic Nigerian has set the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest art canvas to raise awareness for autism. Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke's painting, which features a multi ...

Artists often use their work to share a message. A local painter and poet who is nonverbal also uses his art to be heard. Charles Lenny Lunn is autistic and has apraxia, which prevents him from ...

Mardhiah D'Raphael, 32, a mother of four autistic children, said art activities not only allow her children to express their feelings but more importantly it helps her to know the current emotional ...

Families and advocates fear autistic children will lose vital support as the federal government prepares to move those with ...

Some experts estimate 1 out of 88 children in the U.S. will have autism spectrum disorder, with males four times more likely to be diagnosed.

“I knew the very first day that Grant had some form of autism,” Coy-Manier said. “These kids were not out of touch, just out of sync. Oh my God, this is Grant,” she said. She cried.