XPost: misc.health.alternative, alt.psychology   
   From: superstar@deadcelebrity.org   
      
   2fittnessjunkie@gmail.com wrote...   
   > If you are interested, and if you have time, here are some books to   
   > checkout.   
   > The Sensory Sensitive Child   
   > Reweaving the Autistic Tapestry   
   >   
   > In closing I want to say that I understand the frustration that you   
   > are obviously feeling--working with Autisitic people is hard as hell,   
   > and very few people are able to do it for very long.  But, if you get   
   > a chance, watch a child (under age 8) diagnosed with Autism interact   
   > with his or her family and you will see that these children need some   
   > kind of help and a large percentage of the research--going on since   
   > the discription of the Autistic child, in about the 1920s--has led to   
   > the conclusion that whether a family chooses to go with ABA, or   
   > something like Floor Time the point is that early and intense   
   > intervention is most helpful, and if a member of the family is will   
   > and able to undergo the months to years of training in order to learn   
   > how to implement the treatment for their child then they should...   
      
   The one thing the psychobabble above doesn't tell us is how much the   
   intervention will cost, provide evidence that intervention will work,   
   or even whether the children are actually autistic or whether their   
   mentally abusive parents simply want a diagnosis after having spent   
   so many thousands of dollars to find out why their kid is a brat or   
   the school wanted the diagnosis for funding and testing exemption   
   purposes.   
      
   If the autistic child's abnormal behavior was useful and profitable   
   in some way - perhaps due to that enhanced awareness that makes   
   some of them good at card counting, etc. - then the psychologists   
   would be encouraging the behavior and even drugging normal people to   
   induce the unusual mental states (simply a technical refinement of a   
   common business practice in some countries of forcing workers to take   
   amphetamines to make them more productive).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)