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Talk School is leading the way to a new understanding of autism. The Talk School formerly the Magnolia School is the nations most progressive center for the education of children with speechlanguage disorders who may also have autism and other disorders. As teachers therapists and researchers we are at the forefront of a new more accurate and personcentered understanding of autism one that presents autism as a sensorybased movement disorder profoundly affecting language social interaction and praxis. TALK School Talk School provides the intensive integrated academic instruction and therapeutic interventions essential to children currently coping with disabling speech and language disorders without regard to race creed or color.