Divided Autism Community

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I hear you, Beth, and part of me agrees with you, at least as far as we are our own worst enemy. But part of me also agrees with . I don't want to pass judgment on the efficacy of biomedical treatments, but it's true that where you're doing several interventions at once, it's hard to pinpoint exactly which ones are "working."

I do know that Noah started to speak (at age 6!) right after we did Fast Forward, but I'm not sure if I can really credit that..or with the years of behavior therapy and speech therapy which preceded it.

-----Original Message-----From: sList [mailto:sList ]On Behalf Of bethvatakerSent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:21 AMTo: sList Subject: Re: Dr. Berger and Dr. Levinson

It is posts like this one that should remind all of us how divided the autism community still is. It is hard enough for all of us parents to bear witness to the judgements of those around us who are not living with autism in their lives, but then to be judged by our own peers with such negative conotations attahed to it should sadden all us. To the original parent who is referred to in this post below if you say your child spoke after biomedical treatments, I believe you, for it is YOU who knows what has helped your child progress, not strangers on a yahoo posting board. I offer up no apologies for butting in, just support to those parents who choose to share their success no matter how controversial their methods may seem. Respectuflly,Beth Vataker I am not sorry for butting in, I am just sorry that we cannot all > > >> > > Going to see Dr. Berger in two weeks. Just got scared all of a > > > sudden. Is it worth the trip? Do I even know what I'm doing? > Have > > > any of you met Dr. Berger? Heard good things; good experiences?> > >> >>