Autistic teens get new Shanghai coffee shop

A Shanghai nonprofit group that ran a coffee shop to teach autistic adolescents how to interact with others said on Sunday it has found a new location and will reopen soon, after being forced to close over a rent issue.

The group - Shanghai Angels Salon - which started up about a decade ago, helps young people with autism and their families through support programs, music therapy and other activities.

On April 2, World Autism Awareness Day, the group opened the coffee shop - A-Coffee - in a small, first-floor unit of a commercial building downtown. It was staffed by eight autistic teenagers, 15 to 18.