Autism.tv Site Launched by ARI

Posted by Melissa Hincha-Ownby Aug 28, 2008

The concept of autism recovery is popular, albeit controversial. Some in the autism community do not feel that autism recovery is possible as being autistic is just a part of the normal human continuum. Others in the community feel that not only is recovery possible, all steps should be taken to pursue recovery. Then of course there are those who fall somewhere in between.

For those that are interested in learning more about autism recovery and interventions, the Autism Research Institute (ARI) has just launched the Autism.tv website. According to the ARI press release on the topic, “The website is intended to demonstrate to parents, physicians, and research scientists that recovery is a reality for a significant percentage of children with autism.”

The website will feature links to videos that are posted on popular sites like YouTube, video clips of news shows that discuss autism recovery or intervention, personal blog articles of interest as well as online news stories. If you have a link that you would like to submit to the Autism.tv site, ARI is accepting submissions via email to submit@autism.tv.

In addition to user-submitted links, the Autism.tv website also features many of the Defeat Autism Now! Webcasts. Current webcasts available include Recovery is Possible, Triggers of Autism, Vaccinations, Diet, Chelation, ABA and Other Therapies, Future Pregnancies and many more.

In looking at the website, one thing that I find missing is information from adult autistics. Autism intervention is not new and many adult autistics have taken the time to discuss their view of the therapies that they went through as children. I think that adding this type of information to the Autism.tv site would provide a more balanced view of the autism recovery subject.

Source: ARI Press Release