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Problem: Autism is one from pervasive developmental. Due to the difficulty in attention their language, behavior and social skills had been affected seriously. Objectives: 1) to evaluate the improvement of attention after 3 month's speech therapy intervention. 2) To assess the behaviors disorders (by Gilliam scale [4J) in relation with their improved attention. Method: 35 kids aged 2-6 years, identified autism by DSM-IV. A Larson scale on attention (A- TAC) had been used to evaluate their attention at the moments 1 month and 3 months after speech therapy intervention. The results: The attention skills had been significantly improved after speech therapy for three months (p 0,0001). By this progress there had been found the close positive correlation between behavior skills and attention improvement R