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I was recently in an economic development group with Nancy Wiseman, an Autism researcher at FSU who occasionally works with Autism Speaks. She had some pretty interesting things to say about a "cure" for autism. The gist of her angle was "Right now the best way to deal with autism is to focus on early identification, caretaker support and training, and socialization." The "magic Autisim pill" that makes you into a different person or whatever will likely never exist, but apparently with the right kind of therapy and care, autistic children can have much more functional and self-sufficient lives when they grow up. Apparently the effects of early intervention were pretty massive, and if I remember properly they were achieving something like an 80% success rate for getting autism spectrum kids to be able to succeed in a normal classroom by first grade. Anyhow, if ya'll are interested here's a link to her site and some of her work on autism speaks: http://www.firstsigns.org/ http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/video-glossary http://www.autismspeaks.org/about-us/press-releases/autism-speaks-joins-florida-state-university-and-first-signs-launching-treat
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