Public Affairs Sunday February 17th, 2013
On this week’s Sunday Journal we talk to Dr. Leonard Oestreicher. His website Toys, TV and Autism is meant to inform about Autism Spectrum Disorder and the role of internal or one-way communication plays in the genesis of the condition. The website is built around the book, The Pied Pipers of Autism. The author, Leonard Oestreicher, MD, presents a groundbreaking and controversial theory which he calls the “The Integrated Theory of Autism.” Certainly genetic factors have a role to play in this condition, but so do environmental factors. Dr. Oestreicher rather than blaming vaccines and mercury, lays fault on the bewildering array of one-way communication our infants are exposed to in their nurseries with today's social environment. Tune is Sunday for a very thought provoking interview.
