Can a Child Recover from Autism? | Autism Video Lecture | Understanding and Treating Autism - Health & Fitness

so a commonly asked question is can my
child recover from autism and I think we
need to look at the symptoms because
this is a symptom based diagnosis a
child has communication issues or has
speech and language delay or has
repetitive restricted behaviors and play
these are the symptoms that give you a
diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder
and this is a symptom based diagnosis so
as we work with those symptoms we are a
child who didn't speak develops more
language I was able to communicate and
get engaged in back-and-forth play and
communication is able to adjust better
it is more flexible with routine in some
ways is recovering so there is recovery
there is improvement there's treatment a
lot of people a lot of parents leave my
child is recovered because they've been
mainstreamed or what the concern was is
no longer concern is that considered
recovery I guess to a degree absolutely
from a parent to a point of view from a
medical point of view looking more at
the subtle genetic biomechanical issues
there can be some other areas that
remain of concern and I would be
vigilant on that how much the child gets
normalized is is a matter of degree and
function based on the level that the
child was impaired by and there is
recovery on a gradient for sure I would
say for all children there is going to
be improvement and recovery from some of
the symptoms they had hopefully they
will no longer hit diagnostic criteria
but that is a judgment or decision that
is done both educationally as well as by
physicians who have to look at the
overall holistic approach of that child
whether they still have some obsessive
tendencies for example or have some
difficulty with social referencing and
maintaining friendships much that they
have been mainstreamed and much that
they have recovered from the initial
diagnostic criteria of one looked at
them very simplistically of it just
being speech delay or in social
engagement etc