Research suggests children can recover from autism

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Leo Lytel, 9, poses for a photograph as he hits a ball with his hockey stick at his home in Washington Wednesday, May 6, 2009.Leo was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. He was undiagnosed at age 9. Provocative new research suggests that 10 percent of autistic children actually ‘recover’ from the troubling developmental disorder and lose the diagnosis later on in childhood.