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Liaisons, Coordinators, Externs, & Other Volunteers In addition to our Board of Directors and our Professional Advisory Board, a number of Coordinators, Externs, and other Volunteers lend their time and talents to support ASAT’s mission and initiatives. We are very grateful! These are our helping hands: Liaisons Advisory Board Liaison Allison Parker, MA, BCBA Educator…
Written by Daniela Fazzio, PhD, BCBA-D, St. Amant and University of Manitoba Parents and caregivers of children with autism often worry about the services that will be available to their children as they reach adolescence and adulthood. The common reaction for many parents is to feel lost in the “service gap.” While there are a…
Source Dear Ms. Pittman: We want to thank you for your informative piece on the ineffectiveness of chelation therapy in children with autism–particularly its emphasis on the risks involved and the lack of scientific support (“Chelation Doesn’t Help Kids with Autism,” December 21, 2012). You accurately summarized the current status of chelation as an…
Source Thank you, Jordan Gass-Pooré, for your November 18, 2012 piece on sensory integration therapy (SIT). The Association for Science in Autism Treatment’s Media Watch initiative monitors mainstream media to identify published information about autism and autism treatment, and we provide critique where needed, as well as our praise to journalists writing objectively and…
Source Dear Ms. Goodwin, Thank you for your article, “Doubt Cast on Usefulness of ‘Sensory’ Therapies for Autism” (HealthDay News, May 28, 2012). For parents of children diagnosed with autism, the decision over treatment can be a complicated one. Sadly, scientifically supported treatments for autism, such as applied behavior analysis (ABA) are often overshadowed…
Source Dear Mr. Schofield, Here at the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT), we have a Media Watch initiative to identify how the media is portraying autism and what is said about treatment, and are writing to you with the following comments on your BBC News piece (“France’s autism treatment ‘shame,’” BBC News,…
Source Dear Mr. O’Donoghue, We applaud you and the Irish Times for your article “French film ban raises autism issue” (February 9, 2012), in which you join thousands of people worldwide who are supporting the denouncement of France’s predominating psychoanalytical ideology and treatment of people with autism. Thank you for shedding further light on this…
Source Dear Ms. Friedmann: We would like to commend you for your recent Star Tribune piece, “Autism foundation’s IRS filings raise eyebrows†(July 30, 2011), in which you exposed the wrongdoings of an organization fundraising in the name of helping people with autism. In a very straightforward way, you have denounced the organization’s mismanagement…