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Which therapy?

lili

Hi everybody


I've just joined the community because I want to help my lovely nephew. It's difficult because he lives in the U.S. and things are probably done differently there.

He's 6 yrs old and has only recently been diagnosed with autism. I think there was a lot of denial so it took a while to seek a diagnosis.

I've been trying to read up as much as I can to try to help, but it's really confusing.

My sister and her husband are home schooling my nephew. They've been offered something called ABA treatment, where the therapist comes to their home for two hours a day for a certain period of time (not sure how long) and they're very unsure as to whether to take it up or not, because they've heard such mixed reports about it.

He's also having a therapy called NR (Neurological Reorganisation) and they're also doing a sort of biological intervention to try to help with the various physical problems to do with the gut etc, so various vitamins, a gluten and casein free diet etc.

I would really appreciate any help you can give me with this. Ploughing through Google has made me even more confused!

Thanks very much

Lili

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  • I wish the world would stop trying to make us into something we're not and accept us for what we are!

    @the OP: I've looked up ABA in the past, and there is next to no evidence for it making any difference what so ever.

    Similarly, changing an autistic child's diet will only help if that autistic child has co-existing dietary-based condition. It will make no difference if not. And there is very little evidence that it helps with autism in general.

    I've not looked up NR but it sounds like exactly the same kind of voodoo medicine pushed by modern day snake oil salesmen.

    The problem with all these so called therapies is that they do, and can only do, absolutely nothing to alter the underlying causes of autism.

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  • I wish the world would stop trying to make us into something we're not and accept us for what we are!

    @the OP: I've looked up ABA in the past, and there is next to no evidence for it making any difference what so ever.

    Similarly, changing an autistic child's diet will only help if that autistic child has co-existing dietary-based condition. It will make no difference if not. And there is very little evidence that it helps with autism in general.

    I've not looked up NR but it sounds like exactly the same kind of voodoo medicine pushed by modern day snake oil salesmen.

    The problem with all these so called therapies is that they do, and can only do, absolutely nothing to alter the underlying causes of autism.

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