International Pre-Autistic Network

E over 13 years ago

Hello there, new to the site and just wanted a bit of advice please. My two-year-old son is currently being assessed for ASD and we've heard about an intensive (and expensive) three-week course run by the International Pre-Autistic Network and its founder, Dr Stella Acquarone, a child psychotherapist in London, which apparently does amazing things. Has anyone had any experience of it? Thanks and best wishes, E

XAVI over 13 years ago

There is no such thing as pre autism. That should at least start to ring your alarm bells.
Much better to follow the links provided above to more experienced practitioners.
I can assure you that IPAN are doing nothing new that you can't get elsewhere.
Good luck
philippab over 13 years ago

Hi E,
welcome to the community. It is difficult to decide about different interventions, particularly if they're expensive. We don't have any information about IPAN on the NAS website because there's no published research about it yet.
You could look at our guide to choosing an approach, which gives you different questions to think about, here:
http://www.autism.org.uk/living-with-autism/strategies-and-approaches/before-choosing-an-approach.aspx
And the Research Autism website lists different approaches and how effective they've been shown to be through published research:
http://www.researchautism.net/autism_treatments_therapies_interventions.ikml
Hopefully someone else here will have had some experience of it.