New Study Tries to Prevent Autism in High Risk Infants

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From Jim on another list........

" This little article I just found simply amazes me.. 11 millions

dollars.. to study behavioral interventions..

Now I know this is from an ABA site, but wouldn't it be better to

spend 11 million dollars to figure out the *biological* causes of

autism to be able to actually prevent it, and not just behavioral

interventions that sort of fix the problem after the fact? I thought

by now just about everyone believed that it was at least somewhat

biological, and the evidence for regressive autism is overwhelming,

which is so sudden as it MUST have a biological trigger (I would

think even in a sibling situation there must be a trigger)

And it seems strage that the re-evaluation of the control group is

only at 12 months, while the intervention group is at 12 and 24. Of

course, this is being funded by the NICHD. " Jim

(http://www.aba4autism.com/autisminthenews.html)

(article date: January 7, 2008)

New Study Tries to Prevent Autism in High Risk Infants

Researchers at the University of Washington have launched an 11.3

million dollar study into the prevention of autism. The autism center

is currently looking for infants, 6 months or older who have siblings

diagnosed with autism. This group is of particular interest to

researchers because the rate of incidence increases from 1 in 150 to

1 in 20 when a sibling is diagnosed.

Those infants selected to participate in the study will be given a

preliminary assessment and divided into two groups. Half of the

infants will be monitored by specialists and referred for community

treatment. The remaining infants will participate in a relationship

intervention protocol with their mothers at the Autism Center. These

mothers will be trained to engage their infants in eye contact and

each mother and child will be videotaped interacting once a week for

nine weeks. All infants will be evaluated at 12 months. Those in the

treatment group will get to participate in an early intensive

intervention program and reevaluated at 24 months.

Annette Estes, associate director of the Autism Center will head the

clinical assessment component of the study. Estes is excited about

the research because they will be able to look for early risk factors

of autism and the children will be exposed to early intervention

The National Institute of Child Health and Development is funding

this research project.

Angie MacKewn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

University of Tennessee at

, TN 38238

amackewn@...

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This is unfortunate, but ABA and other behavioral interventions have a huge

market. They're expensive, it's hard to find therapists and it takes a very

long time to see any marked progress using them by themselves. It's a huge

money maker.

It would absolutely be more wise to use that money to study biomedical

interventions. Speaking as a parent who saw virtually no improvement in her

autistic child on behavioral interventions until we started biomedical

interventions, I don't have a high opinion of using something like ABA as the

only intervention for autism.

Autism has metabolic roots and those must be addressed in order to achieve

recovery. Behavioral therapy alone simply teaches the child to cope with their

autism. It does nothing to recover them from it. I know several parents who

have autistic children in ABA and they refuse to try biomedical interventions

and insist they will recover their children this way. It's very unfortunate

because year after they continue to spend tens of thousands of dollars on this

therapy when my child was recovered from autism in about 2.5 years and for less

than $5k and should lead as normal a life as anyone else. Those same parents

are scrambling to make arrangements to care for their autistic children when

they're gone. It's very tragic.

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From: Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@...>

From Jim on another list........

" This little article I just found simply amazes me.. 11 millions

dollars.. to study behavioral interventions..

Now I know this is from an ABA site, but wouldn't it be better to

spend 11 million dollars to figure out the *biological* causes of

autism to be able to actually prevent it, and not just behavioral

interventions that sort of fix the problem after the fact? I thought

by now just about everyone believed that it was at least somewhat

biological, and the evidence for regressive autism is overwhelming,

which is so sudden as it MUST have a biological trigger (I would

think even in a sibling situation there must be a trigger)

And it seems strage that the re-evaluation of the control group is

only at 12 months, while the intervention group is at 12 and 24. Of

course, this is being funded by the NICHD. " Jim

(http://www.aba4autism.com/autisminthenews.html)

(article date: January 7, 2008)

New Study Tries to Prevent Autism in High Risk Infants

Researchers at the University of Washington have launched an 11.3

million dollar study into the prevention of autism. The autism center

is currently looking for infants, 6 months or older who have siblings

diagnosed with autism. This group is of particular interest to

researchers because the rate of incidence increases from 1 in 150 to

1 in 20 when a sibling is diagnosed.

Those infants selected to participate in the study will be given a

preliminary assessment and divided into two groups. Half of the

infants will be monitored by specialists and referred for community

treatment. The remaining infants will participate in a relationship

intervention protocol with their mothers at the Autism Center. These

mothers will be trained to engage their infants in eye contact and

each mother and child will be videotaped interacting once a week for

nine weeks. All infants will be evaluated at 12 months. Those in the

treatment group will get to participate in an early intensive

intervention program and reevaluated at 24 months.

Annette Estes, associate director of the Autism Center will head the

clinical assessment component of the study. Estes is excited about

the research because they will be able to look for early risk factors

of autism and the children will be exposed to early intervention

The National Institute of Child Health and Development is funding

this research project.

Angie MacKewn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

University of Tennessee at

, TN 38238

amackewn@...

--------------------------------------------------------

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

$$ Donations to help in the work - accepted by Paypal account

Voicemail US 530-740-0561

Vaccines - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm

Vaccine Dangers On-Line courses - http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccineclass.htm

Reality of the Diseases & Treatment -

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccineclass.htm

Homeopathy On-Line courses - http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm

NEXT CLASSES start by email March 12 & 13