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Breakthrough in autism research
Breakthrough in autism research
Last Modified: 15 May 2008
By:
Julian Rush
New American research into autism, presented to a London conference, demonstrates a measureable increase in social skills of teenagers after training.
It's led to renewed calls for such training to be made more widely available in Britain.
Autism is thought to affect one in a hundred children and an unknown number of adults.
It's long been thought that social skills training can help autistic teenagers and adults, but until now there's been little hard scientific evidence that it works.
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