Can autistic kids be helped by a play-based program?
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 22:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Canadian researchers have carried out the first study of a play-based therapy program that has had some remarkable success in drawing some autistic children out of their solitary worlds. The CBC's Ioanna Roumeliotis offers a moving look inside floortime therapy.
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