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Pets Can Help Autistic Children Learn to Share and Comfort Others

May 24, 2018 By Maureen Stanton

Neuroscience journalist Maia Szalavitz explores the connection between pets and an autistic’s child’s ability to bond. As demonstrated in a French study of 40 children with autism and their families, whether and when a family acquires a pet can affect a child’s ability to bond with humans.

Read more in this article written for TIME Magazine.

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