Anyone other than Melanie Sykes

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used IPAN and their intensive therapy for children with ASD? Something we are looking into but would love to hear from anyone with real life experience, thanks x

From what I gathered on the website is they treat only babies that show autistic traits...

That's what I thought but apparently they can help children up to 5yrs. My son is 3 and non verbal would do anything to make is life easier like all parents would, however not in a position to spend thousands on nothing iykwim

The website seems quite psychotherapy orientated, which, when discussing pre-autistic babies, always gives me slight refrigerator-mother-theory anxieties.

Though one of their trustees is an NHS neuro paediatrician at Barts so the anxiety may just be my own issues.

Have you considered ABA? If you are looking for an intensive form of therapy which has been put under quite rigorous scrutiny then that would be the first one to consider.

And at 3 your ds is the perfect age to start

I don't know much about IPAN but I did read Sally angry tweets about them! She seemed to think they were pretty dubious

Oops sorry, that was supposed to be Sally Bercow's angry tweets....

Take a look at ABA or Vb therapy.