sentences:  In collaboration with Dr. Robert Reicher, he applied his earlier research on receptor processes to the treatment of autism.Funding was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health and trials were conducted with autistic children and their parents.As a result of his work for the Child Research Project, the Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children (TEACCH) was created in 1971 and he was made co-director in 1972.