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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, in Lord's study, most kids didn't have the intensive therapy.

[b]Only two of the eight no-longer-autistic children in Lord’s study received intensive behavioral therapy, be[/b]cause at the time it wasn’t commonly available where the research was conducted, in Illinois and North Carolina.[/quote]

But how do they define intensive? My son does not have an ASD diagnosis but it has been suspected and at his developmental peds suggestion we started ABA. We did what we could manage, which was about 3-5 hours per week from age 12 months through 22 months, at which point we lost coverage for services. However, during that time he made so much incredible progress from the therapy that we knew we'd be ok without the ABA (though I still think he would have benefited from more ABA as it did wonders for him and we still use the techniques). So, my point is some kids respond so rapidly to lower levels of therapy, and that might not be captured in the study depending on how they define intensive.[/quote]

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