on McCarthy "Cures" Autism, Reaches Out to McCain at 10:34 10/17/2008

I am actually happy that Jenny didn't speak with John McCain or anyone in politics. I received my degree in Applied Behavioral Science focusing in early intervention with children with autism. I have been involved with families and kiddos for around 7 yrs. I am not an expert, but I have spent hrs and hrs educating kiddos with autism. In all of my studies at University I have never found any piece of research that proves that the MMR vacine causes autism. Although Jenny has brought much needed attention to families and children living with autism, she is TOTALLY wrong on this one. I have had the joy of working with many children with autism, and have never met one that have been supposedly "cured". I have heard of and array of diets that try help with inappropriate behavior, self-stimulatory behaviors, and sleeping. With early intervention, correct diet, positive environments, consistent routines children with autism do have a better chance at living a "typical" life. Also I have met numerous parents that said, "But drew was developing fine until the age of two and slowing he just started to lose all communication skills and so on". There are so many things that still need to researched in the field of autism. I wish Jenny would stop giving a bit of false hopes for parents.