NAET safe and effective in treating children with allergy-related autism

Researchers at the NAET Autism Treatment Center in Buena Park, CA, hypothesized that major contributors to the development and symptoms of autism include food and nutrient sensitivities. They applied NAET, a combination of a special form of acupressure and kinesiology, to desensitize subjects to multiple allergens as a way to treat symptoms of autism.  Their findings were published in the just-released October/November 2011 issue of Integrative Medicine—A Clinician's Journal, and the study is now available for review.

The improvements were life changing. Twenty-three of the 30 autistic children in the NAET treatment group were able to return to regular school classes with their healthy, non-autistic peers after 1 year of treatment while all of the 30 children in the untreated control group continued to require special education.

The study included 60 children (2.5-10 years old) with a diagnosis of autism who were randomly assigned to either the treatment or control groups. The treatment group consisted of 26 boys and 4 girls and the control group included 25 boys and 5 girls. The 30 children in the treatment group received NAET treatments for 50 key allergens for 1 year. The children in the (non-blinded) control group did not receive any NAET treatments. Each group was allowed to continue with any other therapies they had been receiving. The NST (kinesiology/muscle testing) was used to determine which substances triggered sensitivity reactions in each child and NAET acupressure treatments were then used to eliminate the sensitivities. 

Fifty-six children (26 in the NAET-treated group and 30 in the control group) completed the study. After 1 year, the children receiving NAET treatments exhibited clinically dramatic and statistically highly significant improvements in performance (p<.0001 vs the control group), including a:

1. Mean 68.4% decrease in the total Autism Research Institute Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ARI-ATEC) Score
2. 64% to 82% mean decreases on the 4 ARI-ATEC subtests
3. 47.4% average increase in the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) and
4. Decrease of 85% in the total Allergy Symptom Rating Scale (ASRS Score)

"We found that NAET is an effective, safe and simple treatment for children with allergy-related autism," said board certified internist Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, the lead author of the study. "In human terms, NAET can provide profound and dramatic benefits, giving children with autism and their families their lives back."

SOURCE NAET Autism Treatment Center