Children with autism need other children around them to help them better socialize. This article provides a great start to helping other children hang with children with Autistic tendencies.

Teach kids how to interact with autistic peers

Twelve-year-old Hannah Koller, Appleton, knows what it's like to interact with an autistic child, as she does daily with her 9-year-old brother, Jacob: "Be patient and don't get frustrated. And don't do anything that's drastically different from what they are used to.

This was the same advice experts gave when asked how to interact with a child diagnosed with autism. A genetic, neurological disorder that affects children differently over its wide spectrum of symptoms, autism can isolate children from the people around them.