The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126713   Message #2818585
Posted By: olddude
22-Jan-10 - 11:30 AM
Thread Name: A Wish for Autism
Subject: RE: A Wish for Autism
Curing autism ? Sadly the fact is after so many years of direct experience with folks NO ... making a child better through specific education, diet, Yes .. but it takes money and a lot of it. In this nation nothing is paid for. I can tell you stories of folks losing their homes because every penny went to help their child ... The meds that most serious cases need are not labeled for "autism" hence even when you have insurance, they won't pay for it because it was lets say for ADD not autism ...

terrible.

One of the things that I have seen many times is a case where a child has autism, doesn't speak, the parents will do quite a bit of intervention and things seem to go really well and say my child is cured and I did it this way or that way... then about age 7 they get nailed really hard with the rage and the other terrible problems because the nature of the disorder changes somewhat as the child grows. Heart breaking is the only word. No two cases of serious autism is the same I think.