94% success rate among autistic children on learning skills project

AUTISTIC children who took part in a project to improve learning skills were ready for mainstream school on completion of the programme, according to its overseers.

Professor Alec Webster, director of the South West Autism project at Bristol University, said they had recorded a dramatic 94% success rate among participants.

“Children made huge gains in academic skills, but more significantly, they acquired social skills to take part in group activities and to take part in the everyday school routine.”