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				<title>Clearing house for therapys</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I have been reading about "Blue laser" http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/29/brain-autism-laser.html and recently saw this http://www.2-b-well.org/?gclid=CPyMg8qjz58CFQTxDAodfigNpQ that claim's to cure autism with some CD's  

I would like to find a place to post the articles we read or programs claims in a educated forum like this to solicit opinions as to the validity of the many claim's being made.  The Blue laser sounds to me, like something that needs to be watched closely.  While the other one sounds "to good to be true"]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, January 31, 2010]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Clearing house for therapys</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi bssage, and thank you for your post.

One of the challenges for families trying to interpret all the information about autism coming at them from multiple directions is just what you were saying: telling what is evidence based from what is experimental or exploratory from what is just people selling something for a profit.

For example, the blue laser article appears to be something that is at a very basic stage. They are doing animal research, and are nowhere near applying this to people. The same might be said of stem cell reseach as it might be applied to autism. 

The second link, as you said, is for a program that sounds "too good to be true." In general, if it sounds that way, it likely is. I hesitate to put down things sight unseen, and yet also am aware of how many unhelpful and sometimes downright dangerous "treatments" are being marketed out there.

As you know, all kinds of autism products and therapies are on offer all over the internet, many with very little research behind them (or biased research behind them - the kind that is for marketing and not for science). It is generally a case of "buyer beware" when it comes to these. As I said in our article on "Evaluating Treatments," there are instances where parents' desperation is seen as somebody else's business opportunity. Other times, people have found something that worked for their students, patients, or their own child and are just trying to share it. Parents should remember to be very critical and use their common sense as they evaluate claims about treatments that have not yet been evaluated scientifically.

You can find the Evaluating Treatments article here: http://www.iancommunity.org/cs/therapies_treatments/evaluating_treatments]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, February 2, 2010]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ Connie (IAN Staff)]]></author>
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