 and ASAN endorses on the website fact sheet, diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Autism speaks has always been careful to use people first language in describing the disability/disorder of autism in children. ASAN suggests in the fact sheet on the ASAN website that autism speaks is attempting to portray autistics as individuals that must be eliminated from society, when the organization portrays the disability/disorder as an issue separate from the unique individual who has the disability/disorder. Since Autism Speaks origin, regressive autism has been determined by research as a disorder inclusive to children diagnosed with Autism whom have abnormal brain growth, not affecting the majority of other individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. There was no way and there still is no way to address the cause and potential prevention of this often incapacitating disorder other than research. 