advocated for alternative treatments for autism and maintained a registry of doctors that were trained by the program to perform them.

[2] Its "highest rated" autism treatment was chelation therapy, which involves removing heavy metals from the body.

[8] Doctors told the Chicago Tribune the treatments were dangerous and that misleading tests were used to show that those with autism had a high rate of heavy metals.

[7] According to the Chicago Tribune, metals occur naturally in the body and very little is known about what a normal range is.

[7] As of 2009, three-fourths of families with a child diagnosed with autism will try an alternative treatment like those that were prescribed by DAN!.