High Road School in Maryland provides children with autism a pet-care therapy program. School social workers hope that nurturing and taking care of animals will reduce behavioral problems, including inappropriate displays of anger; they believe this will be an effective way to help students improve social and communication skills.
Students learn to care for the menagerie of animials -- guinea pigs, fish, turtles, lizards, and hermit crabs -- feeding them and keeping their cages clean. At the same time, children socialize with one another and work together.
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