SV: GFCF survey - New update under way.

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Dear Pat and everybody else,

One weakness of the present study is that we don't have a proper control group.

We have a separate database where we ask people who have not used GFCF diet

intervention to register their experiences, but this part of the study has not

been marketed very much.

Our best plan is to ask the Autism Research Institute to cooperate: They have

lots and lots of ATEC documentation that includes both GFCF patients and every

other treatment regime in the book. Our study makes it possible to compare a

subgroup of patients with GFCF treatment with the average of all treatments.

The results should have a fair degree of reliability.

We're planning to introduce a phase 2 of our survey next year, with more

stringent criteria for inclusion of participants, and with greater emphasis on

regular reporting at pre-defined intervals by all participants, no matter what

their experience is, and no matter whether they stay on the GFCF diet or not.

Yours sincerely

n Klaveness

www.advimoss.no/gfcf_results

www.advimoss.no/gfcf_survey

Re: GFCF survey - New update under way.

> n,

> Do you use asd children who's parents do not use dietary intervention

> as a control? What's the standard? With asd children it has to be

> extremely difficult to get good data, because some recover " spontaneously "

> and some do no better even with Herculean effort.

> Pat in Ohio