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Inside Stanford Medicine: One therapy beats others at motivating kids with autism to speak

Pivotal response treatment (PRT) involving parents works better than other existing therapies at motivating children with autism and significant speech delays to talk, according to the results of a large study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.  

Because children with autism are less socially motivated than typically developing children, parents’ instincts about how ...

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