My son has autism. He also has a future, thanks to the current Chapter 766 regulations. An answer lies in my child's story.
Autism is an emergency.
If treatment is prompt and guided by proven best practice, partial or even total recovery is possible. Delaying help, or using watered-down methods, all but guarantees a lifetime of disability. We never took my son to the emergency room. So we took our severely disabled son to the Brookline public schools, where an educational administrator and a social worker took responsibility for his future. They gave him a free and appropriate education.