According to Dr. Fernando Miranda of the Bright Mind Institute, maybe not. A report in the May 19th Good Morning America/ABC News describes some children who were initially diagnosed with autism, and later found to have Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. For some of the children, anti-seizure medication has produced dramatic results and Dr. Miranda is said to insist that “you have to look inside the brain to determine what’s wrong,” via MRIs and EEGs.
The ABC report portrays parents as greatly relieved to know that there is a medical issue for their child’s disorder, and that the child does not have autism:
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