what is the most effective treatment for autism in children under 5 years of age?

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The most effective treatments involve intensive therapy that focus on any number of critical developmental areas, including speech, motor skills, social skills, and age-appropriate academic areas (letters, numbers, shapes, etc.). Although the causes of the disorder are not fully understood, children who are diagnosed with autism at an early age can, with intensive treatment, sometimes make a full recovery and go on to lead a completely normal life. However, not all kids receiving the same treatment will recover, or even significantly improve. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and the reasons for this are not yet fully understood, although considerable research is being done on this. Interestingly, one of the biggest predictor of prognosis for autistic preschoolers is actually motor skills. One might expect that the kids with least impaired social skills would do the best, since autism is generally thought of as primarily effecting social interaction, but it's actually the children with the best motor skills that are most likely to make a full recovery. For this reason, cutting-edge therapy tends to focus particularly on motor skills, as well as several other areas.

The best course of action for an autistic child is aggressive intervention from a trained professional beginning as soon as a diagnosis is made. Although proper diet is important for any child (or adult, for that matter), don't let anyone tell you vitamins and fish-sticks will cure an autistic child. The so-called "alternative" treatments are generally little more than modern-day snake oil.

i know a woman who's son is autistic with bipolar disorder...she tried every crap drug on the market and he was still having problems...she put him on omega 3 fish oils and essential fatty acids and started taking him to a chiropractor...he is a totally different kid...so i would take your child off of the drugs which all in all make the situation worse and try alternative medicine, and chiropractic/herbs/natural healing...our bodies weren't meant to have drugs and foreign poisons pumped into them...try this and you may see your child begin to feel normal like he/she should!!--good luck and God bless!!

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