A new case report details how twin girls with autism showed dramatic improvements following a parent-led intervention focused on addressing a wide range of modifiable lifestyle and environmental factors.

The report, published last week in the peer-reviewed Journal of Personalized Medicine, was led by doctors from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and researchers from the nonprofit Documenting Hope.

Both twins were initially diagnosed with Level 3 ASD, the most severe type of autism. Between March 2022 and October 2023, their scores on the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC), a tool for measuring changes in ASD severity, dropped from 76 to 32 and 43 to 4 respectively. Lower scores indicate improvements in symptom.

“The dramatic improvements noted among these girls, and in many other cases like theirs, demonstrate that much more can be done to improve the symptoms of autism than is often communicated to parents,” “These findings provide hope that proactively addressing the total load of stressors to the best of one’s ability can result in life-changing recovery,” he added.

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Reversal of Autism Symptoms among Dizygotic Twins through a Personalized Lifestyle and Environmental Modification Approach: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/14/6/641