| Facts About Autism | | | | cure. Research has been ongoing for years but |
| Autism is a really serious condition that you ought | | | | the best that the medical community has to offer |
| to know all there is to know about. Sadly many | | | | are possible risk factors from genetics, chemicals, |
| people don't bother to read up all they can about | | | | and the environment. Besides that, there are only |
| this condition. This article looks at few of the | | | | a number of training therapies that have not been |
| earth-shattering facts about autism and the | | | | proven to heal anyone just yet, and cannot be |
| spectrum disorders that you should know. | | | | demonstrated as actually helping the autism |
| - One in every 3000 American children were | | | | patient improve in any way. |
| estimated to suffer from autism in the | | | | - At least one child has died from experimental |
| mid-nineties, but by the middle of the current | | | | procedures that are supposed to help find a cure |
| decade, the number had risen to about one in | | | | for autism. Many clinicians are getting frustrated |
| every 500 believed to suffer from classic autism. | | | | by the hollow and echoing lack of results after |
| For autism spectrum disorders, the number was | | | | more than fifty years of testing and researching |
| then closer to six hundred thousand children. The | | | | to find the cause and cure for autism, and they |
| projections are that by the year 2010, going at | | | | are beginning to grasp at straws. Heavy metal |
| this rate, one out of every ten American kids will | | | | chelation, a chemical process that was supposed |
| suffer from some variation of the disease! Facts | | | | to bind with and extract heavy metal deposits of |
| About Autism | | | | cadmium and mercury from the body of the |
| - There are many treatment procedures and a | | | | patient, backfired once, and a child was lost |
| few medications that are known to help various | | | | without any positive results. |
| physical symptoms of autism, but there is no | | | | |