Almost 15 years ago I attended a two week seminar on the brain at the U of WA.
At that time they talked about autism often being a disorder of too much information and not enough neural pruning when it is supposed to occur, starting around age 10 (for at least some kids) so that piece of this is really not new.
The importance of consistence and the home environment is of course, also not new.
Good article though. Click on the link below for the rest of the article.
Autism Best Treated in a Stable and Predictable Environment, Study Says: So holds the Intense World Theory of autism, proposedby Kamila and Henry Markram in 2007. It contends that people with autismdon’t have an underdeveloped brain but rather an overdeveloped one.
New research released today in Frontiersin Neuroscience lends considerable weight to this theory. It also concludesthat predictability can significantly help those with autism explore theirintense world.
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