Children with autism now have a Barbie doll that looks like them. Mattel unveiled its first autistic Barbie doll on Monday in hopes of helping members of the autistic community feel seen. The doll, ...

Mattel introduces, 67 years after the original article, Autistic Barbie. “The autistic Barbie doll features elbow and wrist articulation, enabling stimming, hand flapping, and other hand gestures that ...

One readily noticeable pathognomonic trait of autism is hand-flapping—a stereotyped motor movement that can look a bit like an attempt to accelerating the drying of nail polish. Not all with autism do ...