Video - Autism Recovery: 33 Year Follow-Up

Dorian was diagnosed with severe autism and retardation before she began Reflective Network Therapy −then called the Cornerstone Therapeutic Preschool Method− at age three.  In this video of a follow up interview with Gilbert Kliman, MD, Dorian remembers her feelings, images and concerns as an autisic child and the unique treatment that helped unlock her potential. She recovered from near total emotional isolation to become emotionally rich and empathic. Today Dorian Tenore-Bartilucci is a successful professional writer, happily married and raising two daughters.

Reflective Network Therapy commonly produces marked IQ rises, averaging 12 to 24 points. Dorian is one of over sixty well-studied preschoolers treated by Reflective Network Therapy who have been followed and shown to have sustained IQ rises and mental health gains. Dorian's IQ rose from untestable at age three years to 80 at six years, then 149 at 12 years.

Over the last four decades, the Reflective Network Therapy in-classroom method −used to treat Dorian− has been applied by at least two dozen teams of teachers and therapists with more than 1,000 preschoolers in a broad range of community settings including private therapeutic preschools, public school special education and homeless shelter classrooms.