Early Intervention Can Decrease Autism

Sacramento-region families are participating in a groundbreaking autism intervention program that involves children as young as 12 months. Using several practices, therapists and parents work on many skills within the same activity with children and are able to increase their IQ and language skills.

[TyrekeCorrea]

It's more like "Early intervention can decrease the negative effects of autism." If you're going to make a statement about something like this, you need to be accurate.

[TyrekeCorrea]

Wait a minute. What is this, some kind of radical new thing? Early intervention doesn't quite do what's stated here.

[limesquared]

There is no such thing as "decreasing " autism.

[mtdoublem]

I don't like the phrase "decrease" Autism... That is the type of language that is more damaging to the autistic community and damaging the neurotypical's views on autism.

[KERR]

I am Autistic and all I can say is Ignore all of these ABA idiots, we are people, we are not a disease, we are great as who we are, if your worried about your child being autistic do not talk to these idiots talk to someone with Autism. There is Nothing wrong with me, there is nothing wrong with autistics, difference is not wrong... Accept and love people stop trying to make them conform into your limited boundaries.

[InExcelsisDeo]

'Decrease' autism - ridiculous title. Because ABA doesn't do RCTs, we will never know whether children will naturally develop and grow out of certain behaviours, develop language, etc. without intervention. So is actually the 'intervention' working, or is it simply biological maturation occurring? What a con.

[leannaboyle]

Why decrease neurodiversity? Sesame Street is promoting inclusion of people with autism. They have a character named Julia who is on the spectrum.

[dianahussain]

It doesn't decrease anything. It can help with speech, social skills, development. But it does NOT prevent or decrease austism

[xandr]

Title wise... Decrease autism? You cant decrease it... Just decrease the physical manifestation of symptoms... They will still internally be autistic because you cant just fix it and make it go away and internalizing all that can cause mental health issues and long term damage to a person. Im curious if this therapy will be around in 10-20 years and or if it will still be preaching on how much help it did for these kids when they are able to speak up thhemselves. Cuz you know excessive aba was such a great thing til we figured out how much phycological damage it did to a bunch of kids years later....

[emptywithoutbrain]

Such a stupid Statement. Autism is a broad topic and can range from minor to serious need of support. To imply these interventions are decreasing autism is not just misleading but assuming that autism is wrong. Autism only appears challenging because of our inability to provide effective support. I am aware that many of the consultants in medicine have conditions like Asperger's. Thanks to their meticulous framework of thinking they have supported many people. The key difficulties autistic people have is socialising.

To summarize if we were able to diagnose people from the past as effectively as we do today we would find how a larger collection of people are on the autistic spectrum.