>I am wondering if there are people interested in sharing treatment ideas for
>professionals working with individual with autism or PDD. I am an...
>Gail Slaughter,OTR
I urge you to review the material concerning gluten- and casein-free
diets posted at the following address:
http://www.princeton.edu/~lisas/gfpak.html
If you don't have access to the Web, I'd be glad to send you (or anyone
else) a copy. It's fairly long (in the tens of thousands of kbytes).
The gist of it is that it appears that a sizable subset of individuals
with autism react adversely to psychoactive peptides present in wheat,
rye, barley, oats and dairy products (I'm not 100% sure about the oats
being problematic).
See also: http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/reichelt.html (try .htm if it
doesn't work with the .html ending)
Steve Ronan jjj at tiac.net