The new Barbie also has eyes that look slightly to the side, a detail meant to reflect how some people with autism avoid ...

Autism experts and advocacy groups are reacting after Mattel announced a new Barbie doll, the first with autism, on Sunday.

Mattel spent 18 months working with an advocacy organization to develop the doll, which includes noise-canceling headphones ...

She's a Barbie girl!

Mattel's first autistic Barbie was supposed to be a milestone for representation, a glossy plastic signal that neurodivergent kids belong in the same pink aisles as everyone else. Instead, the doll ...

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

In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked.It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, ...

Mattel recently released an autistic Barbie, and transphobes are freaking out about the doll “promoting gender identity” ...