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More special schools will help autistic children: Tharoor

New Delhi: More special schools can create awareness among parents and help in social acceptance of children with neurological disorders, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said here Friday.Tharoor said that a



The new centre for autism will have Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), which is an analytical, research-based, data driven tool for intervention for children on the autism spectrum.

There has been a staggering six-fold increase in autism cases in India, from 20 lakh in 2003 to 1.36 crore at present.