| Regrettably autism is a disorder that has no cure yet. | | | | respond to their outside surroundings, the positive |
| There is very little known about why it impacts some | | | | reinforcement method - which generally is a very |
| people. The diagnosis itself is hard because at first the | | | | powerful tool - doesn't apply in this case. |
| disorder is assumed as "bad-behavior" and other | | | | There Are Modest Rays of Hope |
| corrective steps are used. It has been found that if | | | | There have been cases, largely when autism therapy |
| autism therapy is started early, there is promise for | | | | began before the children were two to three years |
| amelioration in some children. | | | | old. The children made an almost full transition. Such |
| Autism - A Very Agonizing Plight for Parents | | | | cases act as inspiration and promise for those parents |
| It is exceedingly painful for parents to learn that their | | | | who are struggling to deal with this blow. The |
| child is stricken by autism. This is even more so since | | | | educational facilities accessible for autistic children are |
| there is no cure yet for this affliction. There is no way | | | | very limited and very expensive. |
| that one can be assured that the future will bring some | | | | Parents of these children are left at the mercy of their |
| hope. Autism therapy involves a series of exercises to | | | | fate - most of whom opt for home schooling rather |
| bring the child out of his or her world, but as many | | | | than fight the million and one challenges that fall onto |
| frustrated parents have learned, it appears that the | | | | their path when they enquire for state education |
| child has a door which they shut out against the world | | | | facilities. Unfortunately, even the treatment of these |
| and nothing that one can do or say reaches them | | | | children is extremely hard and expensive. There is an |
| anymore. | | | | acute shortage of specialists for autism therapy, which |
| Since autistic children close themselves off from their | | | | stacks the odds against these children. |
| surroundings, it is very challenging to teach them at | | | | However, a spark of hope is there. In a number of |
| times because they stop observing - which is a critical | | | | cases, largely those where the autism therapy was |
| tool for learning. Autism therapy tries to work around | | | | started very early, there has been a total turnaround |
| this obstacle through different approaches founded on | | | | where the child became almost normal. Though the |
| applied behavioral analysis. Even so, progress in most | | | | reasons are still not clear, the phenomenon holds a |
| cases is extremely slow; since the children do not | | | | promise for a potential cure sometime in the future. |