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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Children receive intensive treatment when their brains are already undergoing rapid change, making it difficult to sort out its effects from the gains that come with natural development. Studies that track autistic children over time show that some experience significant improvements in IQ and an easing of symptoms without any systematic treatment. [/quote]

I'm going to repost this on every SN thread where I get bashed for pointing out that in the super-close call cases with 'ASD' like behaviors, kids can and do wind up in the same place without $600,000 worth of 'intervention' from ages 22 mos. to 8 years.    Nobody believes me, or wants to believe me I think, because skipping the 4x a week therapies is understandably viewed by loving, concerned parents as "not doing everything we can when early intervention Has Been Proven To Help."

and to repeat, I just said super. close. call. cases where the diagnostician has equivocal language in his (they're all 'he's') report.[/quote]

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