Only Connect: Inside a School for Autistic Children

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Steve Liss for TIME

Check Mates
am Caruso and Joshua Kitts play chess during their recess, a time when many students often choose to engage in intellectual activities. The good friends are learning to respect individual differences and recognize their own unique sensory needs, something that is hard to do in a standard educational environment, where social difficulties are usually viewed as "behaviors."

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