Autism is a disorder common in children and makes them unable to behave, communicate and hence socialize effectively. Such children usually have difficulties looking in the eyes of a person speaking to them. They repeat sentences to calm themselves and flap their hands when they are happy or injure themselves with objects when they are angry. Many of them, if not enrolled in any intervention program might never acquire the skill of communication through talking. If there is any remedy for the condition, the results are mild and victims usually live with the problem for the rest of their lives. Some autism researchers describe autistic people as not having a self and not being able to reason about the minds of others and acknowledge that other people have desires, beliefs and intentions separate and different from theirs (Theory of Mind). These researchers argue that autists do not have mental capability to understand states of mind like desires, beliefs, intention and hope. This mental retardness is brought about by mental disorders in early childhood which hinder normal development of communication skills. Researchers have not been able to discover the exact cause of this condition but it is assumed that it comes as a result of abnormal chemical and biological interactions in the brain during the period of development of children in their mothers’ womb. Research has also shown that autistic parents are more likely to have babies with autism and that identical twins are more likely to develop the problem than fraternal twins. This leads us to conclude that the disorder is genetically passed from parents to children (Baranek 405). Other causes like changes in the digestive system, diet, sensitivity to vaccines and inability of the body to utilize minerals and vitamins properly is also suspected to lead to autism although this has not been confirmed. There are those researchers who claim that children with autism are able to reason about the mind of others. The argument is that every child or adult are engineered uniquely. They say that, autism like any other human disorder can be treated or children with the disorder can be taught to live a normal life with the condition. Like many curative measures to disorders, treatment cannot guarantee total healing. When they are trained properly, they can reason and adapt effectively to the surrounding. Intervention measures include behavioral training and/or medicine. Among the two intervention measures however, behavioral methods are the most recommended by experts because they equip the patient with live survival skills which enables them to interpret feelings of other people by evaluating body movements, facial expressions and tone of the voice. Patients who come out of the treatment process heal totally and can even be employed in adulthood (Mash 203). Alternatively the child could be enrolled in an intensive training program where he/she learns closely with parents and other members of the family. A team of professionals are also involved in the program because they guide the training. The parents however play a bigger role in the program because they lead the training sessions. Behavioral program could take place at home, school or at a specialized c