Autistic children have greater social interaction thanks to their pets

If you live with dogs and cats, you are more social than people without pets — this is especially true for children on the autism spectrum.

“When I compared the social skills of children with autism who lived with dogs to those who did not, the children with dogs appeared to have greater social skills,” Gretchen Carlisle, research fellow at the Research Center for…

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