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My child was getting plenty of therapy throughout his "windows." Still his brain was wired differently, and his window was on a totally different time frame than the typical child.

The whole window of opportunity is problematic because parents drain their bank accounts and throw away their kid's childhoods on therapies that may or may not make a difference. I know parents who bankrupted themselves -- and their child's outcome is similar to mine, who had much fewer therapies.

The "success" of early intervention is also propped up because they are servicing many kids who would have caught up normally:

http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/09/early-intervention-whats-not-to-like.html

[b]Early intervention: What's not to like? [/b]

"If a child has language problems, when would be the best age to intervene? ...

There is, however, a problem with early intervention that is easily overlooked, but which is well-documented in the case of children’s language problems. This is the phenomenon of the "late bloomer". Quite simply, the earlier you identify children’s language difficulties, the higher the proportion of cases will prove to be "false positives" who spontaneously move into the normal range without any intervention.

If you provide an intervention for a condition that spontaneously improves,[b] it is easy to become convinced that you’ve been effective.[/b] Parents were very positive about the intervention program. There was remarkably good attendance, and when asked to rate specific features of the program and its effects, around three quarters of the parents gave positive responses. This may explain why both parents and professionals find it hard to believe such interventions have no impact: they do see improvement. Only if you do a properly controlled trial will the lack of effect become apparent, not because treated children don’t improve, but rather because the control group gets better as well. "[/quote]

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