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The fear of flying: Helping kids with autism ease into air travel
Temple Grandin, a well-known advocate for people on the autism spectrum, says children have to experience different things in order to develop. “A child’s not going to find out he likes to play a musical instrument if you never expose him to it,” she said. That could also be said of air travel, which many people…