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An Exciting Event for Autism Parents!!
We are delighted to announce our first TA Roadshow event, with more to follow throughout the UK soon, so watch this space!! Three wonderful professional and parent speakers will be sharing their knowledge, experience, and simple nutritional tools to help improve negative autism behaviours and symptoms and make a positive…
NEW publication: “TREATMENTS AND THERAPIES FOR AUTISM” Treating Autism Guide for Parents
We are immensely proud to present our latest publication, produced with the aim of providing parents with a quick overview of some of the available interventions for autism. While the booklet has been produced with parents of newly diagnosed children in mind, to be handed to them at the point…
UK study recruitment: treatment trial of Tui Na Massage Therapy for autism
The very first study in UK on the long term benefits of Tui Na Massage Therapy for reducing the symptoms of Autism in children is recruiting participants!! Message from Tui Na Centre: “Dear friends and followers, We are trying to raise the funds through GOFUNDME that will enable us to…
Cleveland Clinic webcasts – Autism: Research and Medical Treatment Implications
Following up from the successful publication of our document Medical Comorbidities in Autism Spectrum Disorders we are delighted to share that the Cleveland Clinic Centre for Continuing Education has recently launched a clinical Webcasts Series called Autism Spectrum Disorders: Research and Medical Treatment Implications. The series is designed for a…
FREE Treating Autism publication on Intensive Interaction
BRAND NEW Treating Autism publication on Intensive Interaction written by an I.I. coordinator / mother of a child with autism. Published and made freely available by Treating Autism. Intensive Interaction is a simple to learn, relatively inexpensive, and hugely enjoyable method for reaching and interacting with children and adults with…
Treating Autism Conference 2014
THANK YOU to all the wonderful parents, professionals speakers and volunteers who came from far and wide to support our latest conference. Our latest conference, which took place on 8-9 November, 2014 at Brunel University, UK, was aimed at both professionals and parents, and featured a wide variety of speakers…
Autism rates continue to climb, cannot be accounted for by ‘better awareness’
The new numbers, compiled in 2010 and just released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show the rate of autism has more than doubled in the last eight years. The numbers of children affected by autism have gone up in every socioeconomic group and region, and can…
Children with regressive autism show improvements following steroid therapy!
Harvard Medical School finds that children who received prolonged steroid therapy following their regression into autism later show better functioning and improved symptoms compared to children who receive no treatments. Up to a third of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder manifest regressive autism – they show normal early development followed…
Quality Standards for Autism care published by NICE
Treating Autism is pleased to announce that Quality Standard for Autism (QS51) has been published by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). We are hopeful that it will lead to more awareness and investigations of co-occurring medical conditions in autism, including epilepsy and gastrointestinal disorders. There is an overwhelming…
Recovery from childhood Autism
Given the appropriate interventions and hard work, some children completely lose their autism symptoms, and many others can be helped to achieve much higher level of functioning in later life. Listen to scientists discuss these groundbreaking findings here.