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Though many studies show that early intensive behavioral therapy significantly eases autism symptoms, most children who receive such therapy nevertheless remain autistic — and some who don’t get it nevertheless stop being autistic. [b]Only two of the eight no-longer-autistic children in Lord’s study received intensive behavioral therapy[/b], because at the time it wasn’t commonly available where the research was conducted, in Illinois and North Carolina.

In Fein’s study, children who lost the diagnosis were twice as likely to have received behavioral therapy as those who remained autistic; they also began therapy at a younger age and received more hours of it each week. [b]But roughly one-quarter of Fein’s formerly autistic participants did not get any behavioral therapy,[/b] [i]including a boy named Matt Tremblay.[/i] [/quote]

Dip-shit, OP.  Matt Tremblay did get behavioral therapy/ABA:
http://apps.beta620.nytimes.com/accessible_nytimes/Top+News/2014/08/03/magazine/the-kids-who-beat-autism.html

There is no cure for autism and therapy makes it better.  Just b/c someone doesn't need behavioral therapy doesn't mean they're not autistic just higher functioning.

Also, a quarter of Fein's study population is 8.5, big whoop-dee-doo!  [/quote]

[b]Matt [/b]received speech, occupational and physical therapy until he was 7 or 8. [b]But he wasn’t given behavioral therapy because, his mother recalls, the pediatrician never suggested it and the schools in their town in upstate New York didn’t provide it.[/b][/quote]

It's in the NY Times article, that Tremblay received ABA:

"Impressed with B.'s improvement, both families [Tremblay's and a woman going by her initials] [b]hired A.B.A. specialists[/b] from the University of California, Los Angeles (where A.B.A. was developed), for three days of training. The cost was enormous, between $10,000 and $15,000, covering not only the specialists’ fees but also their airfare and hotel stays. The specialists spent hours watching each boy, identifying his idiosyncrasies and creating a detailed set of responses for his parents to use. The trainers returned every couple of months to work on a new phase, seeking to teach the boys not just how to use language but also how to modulate their voices, how to engage in imaginative play, how to gesture and interpret the gestures of others. [b]The families also recruited and trained people to provide A.B.A. to their sons, so each boy received 35 hours a week of one-on-one therapy...[/b]"

http://apps.beta620.nytimes.com/accessible_nytimes/Top+News/2014/08/03/magazine/the-kids-who-beat-autism.html

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