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Misconceptions

I had never been to this web-site and found it very user-friendly, thorough and informative.  I thought that a good addition to this site would be a 'misconceptions' section.  A misconceptions section could include misconceptions regarding different therapy options, causes of autism or perceived 'cures' of autism, just to mention a few.  I am a speech pathologist and spent some time looking through the speech therapy section in particular.  Under 'Is it harmful?', there was a sentence stating that no research has found speech therapy to be harmful. An example of a misconception related to speech therapy would be that some people (parents ask this often) think/question rather communication that involves signing, PECS or AAC has a negative impact on learning to speak.  The misconceptions section could clarify that other communication means actually are correlated with improvements in speech and do not negatively effect speech development.  

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