Archival School Pscyhology Podcast Episode 012

On this third part of a series of episodes on Autism, I focus on fads, quackery and pseudoscience with respect to autism. For more information, listen to episode 010 Autism: What we know and 011 Autism: What we don’t know. I focus on several claims that have been unsupported by research, yet can be popular and cause harm due to lost resources (time, money, hope, etc.) and at times can be dangerous.

Unsupported claims include Bettelheim’s claim that Autism was not biologically based and was caused by parenting. I also focused on unsupported claims such as childhood vaccines causing autism, or chelation therapy, secretin, diet, supplements, auditory training, sensory integration training, chiropractic treatment and facilitated communication.

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