Melanie Pellecchia
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
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‘Teachable moments’ are key ingredients in autism therapy
The job of delivering interventions for autism often falls to overstretched teachers in schools with few resources. Melanie Pellecchia and David Mandell set out to find the ‘active ingredients’ of school-based interventions.
‘Teachable moments’ are key ingredients in autism therapy
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