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Swathi Balantrapu has been searching for a treatment for her 10-year-old son with autism.<\/p>\n

She first tried applied behavior analysis therapy, or ABA therapy<\/a> \u2014 an evidence-based approach. She later pursued a $7,000 movement and stretching program. Like many parents of autistic kids, she also turned to alternative options<\/a>, including a stem-cell therapy treatment in Germany, costing $40,000 per year, repeated over the past three years.<\/p>\n

After a press conference last fall, where federal health officials touted a new treatment<\/a> for autism, Balantrapu found a new reason to hope her son’s condition could be cured.<\/p>\n

“I would do anything for my child,” she said. “Maybe there is something to it. It just feels like one last stone unturned.”<\/p>\n