The Barbie doll features aspects meant to represent traits of some individuals with autism, according to Mattel. This includes an eye gaze shifted slightly to the side to avoid eye contact; elbow and wrist articulation for stimming, hand flapping and other hand gestures for expressing excitement or processing sensory information.

Mattel has introduced autistic Barbie, another first for the company that aims to expand representation for children with different abilities.

The "Barbie" name seems to have been on everyone’s lips since the hit movie debuted in theaters in the summer of 2023. The dolls, however, have been around since 1959 — and now the brand has announced a new line for its Career of the Year collection.

It was a Barbiepalooza day for a Greensburg grandmother, who on Sunday was selling her collection of more than 100 Barbie dolls for less than what she paid for them in her 30 years of collecting the colorfully-costumed character. Why sell them now after ...

PHOENIX - The Barbie movie took the box office by storm, and it inspired many Barbie fans to get into the collecting game. Long before the movie came out, however, an Arizona woman started collecting Barbie dolls and their accessories. "Barbie is the best ...

Before Mary Huff Tusing passed away, she had a singular wish: to see her collection of more than 1,000 Barbie dolls repurposed and distributed to children in need.