A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

The subject of an award-winning biographical film Temple Grandin in 2010 Temple Grandin was listed in the Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the "Heroes" category. She also created the "hug box" a device to calm autistic children.