Bridging Autism's Distance

Parents are turning to alternative interventions such as metal-stripping drugs, antioxidants and special diets to help their children, but experts say the costly approaches are unproven.
Anne Hart
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When your son flaps his arms repetitively, walks in circles on tiptoes, rocks back and forth, doesn't make eye contact or say a word at 20 months old, it's hard to listen to pediatricians who tell you to be patient.
Or to specialists who say there's no medical treatment except intensive behavioral therapy; then, as the child grows older, psychiatric drugs.

That's why many parents of children with autism, a complex developmental disorder that impairs ability to communicate and socialize, are sinking big bucks in alternative, sometimes risky, unproven medical treatments. They say such interventions are saving their children.

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