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Making Sense of the Playground Jungle

Posted on October 06, 2008

The October 6th Arizona Republic describes a program developed by the Phoenix-based Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center to help autistic children successfully fit into the often intimidating social mix of recess. Autistic students are first taught board games or tag or other games and other students are brought in to learn to play with them: You are then positively impacting both the child with autism and the typical children because you re getting these kids to be compassionate toward each other, [Karen[ Donmoyer said. It s not rocket science. [Donmoyer has 9-ye...

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