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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From Day 3 of the Los Angeles Times autism series:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/autism/la-me-autism-day-three-html,0,3438178.htmlstory

Families cling to hope of autism 'recovery'
An autism treatment called applied behavior analysis, or ABA, has wide support and has grown into a profitable business. It has its limits, though, and there are gaps in the science.

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Such stories seem straightforward: A child is diagnosed with autism, receives ABA and gets better. But for scientists, they are difficult to interpret.

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.

Dr. Bennett Leventhal, an autism specialist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, N.Y., said that in rare cases an autistic child receiving therapy can improve enough to pass for normal.

[b]But others who are deemed recovered "probably never really had autism in the first place," he said.[/b][/quote]

I just got done speaking with a woman who was getting the autism speech from the school teacher. So she had a comprehensive eval by a developmental pediatrician, who said -- no way.

So now she's on a totally different path than she would be if she thought it was autism. And that's just dealing with conventional treatments! It will totally save her from being tempted by all the unproven shams, like DAN, chelation, supplements, etc. But if she'd just taken the teacher's word for it, her kid would be looking at a totally different childhood.

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