Autism symptoms may improve with special diet

As a disclaimer, I need to say that I don’t specialize in working with autistic children and their families, so I am not familiar with the professional research. But I found this article interesting. It’s relatively simple to try a gluten-free casein-free diet. Gluten refers to wheat products and casein to dairy products.

Here is the link a story in our local paper:

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/26/changing-childrens-foods-can-also-alter/

and a companion piece on how immersion in the arts helped one young man blossom

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/26/power-tools-for-special-needs/

I’d be interested to hear your comments.

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Tagged as: asperger, autism, autistic, Dairy product, Gluten, Gluten-free diet, Special Diets