Playing with building blocks of creativity help children with autism
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 17:01
in Psychology & Sociology
In an attempt to help children with autism learn the building blocks of creativity, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Centre (URMC) tapped a toy box staple for help - legos. By building lego structures in new and unique ways, children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) learned to use creativity, an important skill that they had seen as very challenging prior to the study...