In a randomized, controlled trial patients were prescribed either advice and exercise delivered by a physiotherapist, advice and exercise combined with true acupuncture, or advice and exercise combined with non-penetrating acupuncture.

About three children in 10,000 were diagnosed with the developmental disorder in the 1970s. But now reports indicate 1 in 166 children have the condition, according to [James Mulick], chair of a symposium on "Outrageous Developmental Disabilities Treatments" at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association this week.