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Two interesting studies this week. The first from researchers studying a learning strategy called repetition. As it turns out, it may impair the ability for people with autism to generalize what they learn into new situations, like learning that a golden retriever is a dog and a beagle is also a dog. Also, researchers in Australia comb the autism literature to determine what the financial costs and benefits of supportive employment are and discover that getting people with autism employed is good for the soul and good for the economy. That study is open access and can be found here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0139896