Perhaps the most striking moment of the symposium came when Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center revealed the results of an approach he has developed, called auditory-motor mapping training, using pitch and rhythm to heal autistic children who are incapable of speaking.

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O'Dell's form of therapy--intensive sensory and motor-skills training to help the brain build and strengthen neural pathways--has never been subjected to an unbiased clinical trial or peer-reviewed by a medical journal.

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Bahrain, which has neither the financial nor hydrocarbon reserves of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, has been training its citizens as motor mechanics and supermarket cashiers.

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