A four-year trial of Pre-School Autism Communication has received 1.3m of funding from the Medical Research Council and will be conducted at the University of Manchester. It will study the effectiveness of a treatment to improve parent/child communication and develop the social and language skills of autistic children aged between two and five before they start school.
The families of 144 children in Manchester, Newcastle and London will attend fortnightly sessions with a communication therapist for six months to learn new ways of understanding and communicating with their autistic child, followed up with monthly booster meetings for a further six months.
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