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Your concern is well founded, insofar as onlookers of other people's parenting are all too quick to blame parents for all bad characteristics of the children. B

Your concern is well founded, insofar as onlookers of other people's parenting are all too quick to blame parents for all bad characteristics of the children. But if further research shows parents whose infants are at risk for development of autistic signs how to nudge the children's development in the direction of more communication and ability to engage in self-care, I think most parents can be trusted to take research-based advice to help their children. AFTER EDIT: Here are some more links with news about the currently reported study. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/09/6690500/uc-davis-study-breaks-ground-on.html http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/09/6690500/uc-davis-study-brea... http://time.com/3305027/autism-symptoms-disappeared-with-behavioral-therapy-in-babies/ http://time.com/3305027/autism-symptoms-disappeared-with-beh... The link below is a PubMed link to an earlier journal publication by the same research group. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023017/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023017/

mpyne 12y ago
I am 100% not trying to say we shouldn't pursue better remedies (or even cures). I am trying to say that we should be careful in how we phrase (and understand) these success stories. For instance there were 6 success out of a group of 7, which is wonderful news. But that still means there was 1 "failure"... were the parents to blame? Did they apply the "cure" wrong? Or was this an instance of a technique not having 100% applicability. This technique is far too late for my autistic child, but this is exactly the kind of question I would think a parent of autistic children would have, not to mention their friends and relatives who usually have even less insight into the state of autism research but who do remember headlines involving "cures for autism".

mpyne 12y ago

I am 100% not trying to say we shouldn't pursue better remedies (or even cures). I am trying to say that we should be careful in how we phrase (and understand) these success stories. For instance there were 6 success out of a group of 7, which is wonderful news. But that still means there was 1 "failure"... were the parents to blame? Did they apply the "cure" wrong? Or was this an instance of a technique not having 100% applicability. This technique is far too late for my autistic child, but this is exactly the kind of question I would think a parent of autistic children would have, not to mention their friends and relatives who usually have even less insight into the state of autism research but who do remember headlines involving "cures for autism".