The Human Voice May Not Spark Pleasure In Children With Autism
Scientists and parents have long been baffled by the fact that children with autism often don't pay attention to human voices. Researchers say that may be because speech doesn't activate a reward system in the brain for those children the way it does for typical children.READ MORE
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