Controversial Therapies for Development: Fads, Fashion, and Science in Professional Practice

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Summary: Essential Reading
Review: Autism and other disorders on the Autistic Spectrum are among the most serious of behavioral diagnoses. As such, the ASD's should be the focus of our most intensive, science-based efforts to find ways to address the difficulties we associate with the diagnoses (see www.asatonline.org). Instead, treatment has been a history of fad, with charlatans or the uninformed pushing useless and potentially dangerous "treatments." This book will inform you of the history, as well as current trends. Most importantly, it will show you how to avoid the common non-science based traps. The field's friend, Dr. John Jacobson, recently died. This book is a fitting final contribution.