It is a de-institutionalized model of education. It promotes the education of the child in the natural environment and not just in a classroom or cubicle. Autism is not an illness. Autism is not something that a child has. It is a way of behaving.
Children learn autistic behaviors.
The causes of these behaviors are not in the genes. Autism is not an organic problem. The causes of autistic behavior are in the interaction the child has with his or her environment, mainly with the social environment. In some cases, organic factors can participate as dispositional events. No one is guilty for the autistic behaviors of a child.