AST: Finding right autism treatment can greatly impact child's progress and future quality of life

In addition to the therapy, the qualifications of the agency and therapist, the method of measurement, etcc... It is important to not that therapy and skill acquisition will only be as good as how well it is generalized.  Generalization of the skill is essential for a skill to be utilized in real life.  For this to happen, therapy needs to include generalization of the skills and should also include parent training to teach the parent to generalize the skill.  There are many methods of teaching that can enhance ABA and generalization of skills.  I encourage parents to press the issue of skill generalization.  
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Parents of children with autism are learning that food choices can help their sons and daughters become healthier and reach their full potential. In addition to traditional behavioral therapy and other pharmaceutical treatments, pediatricians, researchers, and nutritionists increasingly recommend that parents implement autism diets, autism-specific nutrition, and specialized supplementation.

Event television's respected Dr. Oz recently said, "Some of the most promising treatments for autism come from changing the foods that the child is eating."

It’s important to understand that these diets are customized food-focused strategies of nutritional intervention for autism. Going from not considering the impact of food intake (standard American diet) to giving specialized attention (nutrition centered diet) is the key to promoting systemic healing through autism diets.

Most people who apply this strategy find it worthwhile.

Although I am not a doctor or a nurse, but rather the mother of a child with autism, I have a theory about its' cause. Over the years, as we've evolved to live as a convenienced society, the human race has been ingesting copious amounts of hormones, preservatives, and chemicals present in food and everything else we take into our bodies. This also includes the concentrated timespan of vaccinations given to children. I believe there are individuals with sensitive physiological and neurological makeup who just do not tolerate these "alien" substances and have been "modified" somehow through the decades and thus autism has become the epidemic it is today. I have seen firsthand how wholesome, untampered food and environment can help children with autism. Also, the dangerous psychotropic medications doctors prescribe are killing our kids and awareness of this fact needs to come to light...