To Give Annual Livingston Lecture Longtime California State University, Sacramento psychology professor Joseph Morrow, whose consulting group last year built the country's only school designed specifically for children with autism, has been chosen to deliver this year's Livingston Lecture. The honor is among the University's most prestigious recognitions of academic excellence. At the convocation, Morrow will talk about his Applied Behavior Consultants School, located in Southeast Sacramento, and the theory behind its highly successful methods. Our approval and understanding isn't all that important to them. We have to teach them to socialize.
Autism is a neurological disorder of unknown cause.
The ABC School was completed last October. It's one of just a dozen applied behavior analysis schools for teaching children with autism in the nation, and the only one specifically designed for that purpose. Among its features are non-flickering lights and special soundproof walls, since autistic children are especially sensitive to changing light and to sound. Morrow says ABC can help about 40 percent of autistic children get into mainstream public education classes, if the program is begun by the time the child is four. Other children can usually be helped into public school special education programs.