I'm a little behind on all the treatments used with children diagnosed with autism & there are a lot, including a many, many untested treatments. Hyperbaric treatment is one I've run across before, seen advertised in the local newspaper for treating other childhood disabilities, and have encountered supporters for in the past.
The big problem in evaluating the treatments is lack of clinical trials and outcome research -- arguing whether or not the treatments work based on what else works or what should work from a given theoretical perspective often devolves into different camps talking different perspectives. Hard data is, I think, the only way out of that dead-end.
Its heartening, then, to see that there is at least one clinical trial of hyperbaric treatment. On one hand, the data looks promising. On the other hand, some of the researchers do this treatment for a living.
By the way, the Translating Autism (an autism research blog) is well worth subscribing to in your favorite RSS reader.
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