I recently got a message about a local meeting of an autism organization that supports “immediate” alternative treatments for autistic children. I’m not able to attend the meeting and have been thinking about that word “immediate.”
It’s not hard to understand why a parent would want some way to stop a child from head-banging (as my son used to, and frequently), or to wish that getting a child to say that first word could happen at the snap of one’s fingers; that one day you would wake up and your child could seamlessly, smilingly, read sentence after sentence in a …read more