Игровая революция: Улучшение результатов при тяжелом аутизме с помощью персонализированной медицины

Game Changer is an introduction to the world where severe autism is viewed as a treatable medical condition, based on translating existing science into therapy. In his autism science blog, epipanyasd.com, Peter Lloyd-Thomas has been shining a light on the usually hidden world of autism science since 2013, all the while fine-tuning a personalized medical therapy for his own son. Monty was diagnosed in 2007 with what now would be termed level 3 severe autism, the kind that requires lifetime care.The purpose of this book is to highlight how Peter and many readers of his blog are significantly improving their child’s life prospects, based on existing peer-reviewed science. The book does not go into all the complex details and cite the scientific literature; for that look no further than his epiphanyasd blog, where thousands of research papers are reviewed and are but a click away.Peter has been using personalized medicine for a decade and in 2019 started presenting at international autism conferences. His blog has had two million pages views and tens of thousands of comments since 2013.Many people reading Peter’s blog are doctors trying to figure how to help their own child with autism. At medical school they were taught that autism is untreatable and to date all clinical trials have failed to get past the final stage. There is no singular autism and in fact we now know that there are hundreds of possible causes of autism. There cannot be a one size fits all solution; no therapy can possibly benefit everyone.With such a wide variation in what is now diagnosed as autism, what makes a game-changer? For some people it is getting their five-year-old to talk, for another it is stabilizing a child’s behavior so he does not get excluded from school, for an older parent it might be stopping their adult child being violent, so that they can finally go on a holiday together.In our case, game-changing was raising cognition so that Monty could follow the standard school curriculum without an IEP (Individualized Education Plan), although with an assistant. He went from being unable to maintain any attention and learn anything at school, to being the pupil with model behavior and fully includable.Prior to personalized medicine at the age of 9, it was impossible to teach Monty even the basics of addition and subtraction. He left high school in 2022 with externally assessed exam grades (English IGCSEs) that were better than some of his neurotypical classmates. Science was a B, Maths a C and English a C.