ABSTRACT
In their own eyes they are pioneers and innovators, challenging the therapeutic nihilism of medical orthodoxy and improving the lives of children with autism and their families. To the parents who consult them, they offer hope and practical interventions that parents believe are transforming the health, behaviour and prospects of autistic children. To their critics, they are quacks and charlatans, exploiting desperate and vulnerable families and profiting from their difficulties. In this chapter we look more closely at the practitioners who provide biomedical treatments for autism.
