A 9-year-old boy with autism lost his beloved teddy bear, sparking a search from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. The teddy bear, named Tim, went missing on New Year’s Eve at the Hard Rock Hotel & ...

Mattel’s launch of its first autistic Barbie this week has been met with both celebration and criticism from the autism community. Created in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 9-year-old boy’s cherished stuffed toy bear has gone missing after a family trip to an Atlantic City hotel casino on New Year’s ...

Mattel's new autistic Barbie has been widely praised online for giving representation to the community. But not everyone, including some autistic people or their family members, is sold on the new ...

In A Nutshell • Warm overnight temperatures during pregnancy showed associations with higher autism rates in a study of nearly 300,000 births • Risk increased 13-15% during weeks 1-10 and 30-37 of ...

Five-year-old Mikko’s eyes lit up with glee when she noticed something familiar about her Barbie: The doll held a fidget spinner and wore oversize headphones, just like hers. The moment was “almost ...

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Barbie is launching its first autistic doll in an effort to represent how individuals with autism spectrum disorder experience the world around them, USA TODAY can exclusively reveal. The doll, which ...

There’s a new kind of Barbie girl in this Barbie world. Mattel just released its first autistic Barbie doll in an effort to represent how those with autism spectrum disorder may experience the world ...

On January 11, 2026, Mattel announced the release of Autistic Barbie, a doll with an official autism diagnosis who uses augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to communicate, carries a ...

Earlier this week, Mattel launched the first ever autistic Barbie—or at least the first Barbie to be explicitly identified as such. The newest addition to the Fashionistas collection, a line of ...