The programme uses methods based on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA).
Professor Bob Remington, deputy head of the University of Southampton's School of Psychology, said, 'It breaks down tasks and finds ways of teaching children that are fun.'
In the study involving 44 children aged between 30 and 42 months, half received an average of 25 hours of the specialist one-to-one tutoring at home and half received their local education authority's standard provision, such as speech and language therapy.
Professor Remington said that over two years the children's daily living skills, language and social and communication skills improved greatly.
After two years, IQ levels increased in two-thirds of the children. One child's IQ rose from 30 to 70 and another from 72 to 115.
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