CARS also provided an accurate picture of the child’s strengths, which was crucial for developing an appropriate plan for his or her education. Schopler believed that an approach to autism that took into account strong rote-memory capabilities and enhanced visual-processing skills would result in not only more effective teaching but more accurate neurological research. In 1988, Schopler and his colleagues issued a second edition of CARS that was even easier to use. After reading the manual and watching a thirty-minute video, medical students, speech-language pathologists, and special-education
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