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• Mark will be spending two years at the museum helping support our exhibitions and galleries and taking inspiration form the objects to help design new products and inventions.

• Now, the museum, and others like it, are moving beyond accommodating the enthusiasm for trains and buses among children with autism and trying to use it to teach them how to connect with other people — and the world.
• Marcia Ely, the New York Transit Museum’s assistant director,
• The museum created a “Subway Sleuths” after-school program for 9- and 10-year-olds with autism that focuses on the history of New York City trains but seeks to make the children more at ease socially.
• The link between trains and autism is well documented.
• It catches their attention. Once you’ve got the child’s attention, you can do many types of teaching.”

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