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- 05-24-2010
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By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
While his fifth grade classmates at Marvin Elementary played Jeopardy to learn about nephrons and neurons, 11-year-old Ben Cary moaned and rested his forehead on the table. His assistant, Michael Brown, coaxed him to play a parallel game, matching labels to body parts. "What are you working for?" Brown reminded Ben, a boy with autism who doesn't speak but can employ technology so nimbly he once used a Sesame Street recording to show his parents he wanted noodles. Ben pointed to a laminated card reading "listen to music" -- his reward for schoolwork -- and sat back up to match labels to feet and fingers as his classmates were quizzed about glands. (more...)
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