Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show
decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face
recognition and
emotion.
The key treatment objectives of CARES are: (a) to enhance attention to critical facial cues signalling distress in child, parents and others, to improve
emotion recognition and labelling; (b) improve emotional understanding by linking
emotion to context, and by identifying contexts and situations that elicit child anger and frustration; (c) teach prosocial and empathic behaviour through social stories, parent modelling, and role play; (d) increase emotional labelling and prosocial behaviour through positive reinforcement; (e) and increase child's frustration tolerance through modelling, role - playing, and reinforcing child's use of learned cognitive - behavioural strategies to
decrease the incidence of aggressive behaviours.