Aid for autism

Aid for autism
By C. A. Garland and Brenda Harris
baltimoresun.com
January 25, 2005

While the approaches may be different, experts are united on several key aspects for treating autism, PDD and Asperger's. They are:

- Early intervention is better than late.

- More-intensive intervention is better than a go-slow approach (not simply to maximize the rate of learning, but to break bad habits such as repetitive, mechanical, unimaginative play and self-injurious action that usually cannot be schooled out of a child in just a couple of hours a day).

- Possibly half of all autistic children can recover enough to be mainstreamed in school, develop friendships, ultimately hold jobs and have good prospects of a normal life.

- Even those who cannot aspire to this standard of recovery can do much better than they would have without treatment.

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For more information and resources on autism go to:
http://www.autismconcepts.com/.