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Experience has convinced us that children on the autism spectrum develop most successfully and rapidly when their social, educational, and physiological needs are met and balanced within an individualized, comprehensive program. In recent years, medical treatment for autism has improved significantly. Doctors working with organizations such as Defeat Autism Now (DAN) are helping to create protocols for diagnosing and treating biomedical factors associated with autism. There are some doctors who now specialize in creating protocols for children with autism, using some version of the DAN protocol. Much is being learned and more and more children are being substantially helped.

Behaviorists acknowledge that medical conditions affect behavior. A behavioral, educational or relational program can help your child, but any work that is done might be an uphill effort if your child is affected by biomedical problems. Over the years, this has been very obvious to us.

We have seen some rare cases of children who are quickly and dramatically affected by a biomedical intervention alone. (Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, in a conference recently referred to this as "winning the autism lottery.") More commonly, biomedical intervention helps the child to pay better attention, fidget less, or be mentally sharper. Even though behavioral, educational and relational work remains necessary, appropriate biomedical intervention may make those efforts more successful.

If a child's health improves, his or her behavior and ability to learn often improve. This is common sense. If a child has digestive problems, then there may be substances reaching the brain that are not supposed to be there, and substances that are supposed to be reaching the brain that are not. Some children can even appear drugged as a result. When the digestive difficulties are normalized, it can appear that the child is waking up. We have observed a number of children for whom learning was impacted by a hidden biomedical problem. Once low grade, barely detectable fevers, allergies, constipation or other difficulties with elimination were detected and treated, the child exhibited noticeable improvements in behavior and learning.

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