Working to prevent us from being autistic

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Local Study Aims To Prevent Autism Through Early Intervention

But what is the treatment? Counselling? (Sorry. My humour). But what do they do?

hopefully they won't be force-fed bleach as seems to be the horrid "cure-all" of the moment.

Therapy does not work for Autism and is a waste of time. Autism is something we are born with or not. Working to prevent from getting Autism is an approach that will not work. Autism exists and there will always be some people with Autism.
There needs to be more understanding of Autism and support networks should work with us and not try to cure with useless therapy or medication that only creates more issues. Holistic approach through diet, exercise and doing hobbies/interests we enjoy will help to support people with Autism.

Preventing disabilities from occuring is not ableism, if that was the case it would automatically apply to all doctors & medical professionals.

Whether it works or not is another thing and i have my doubts about that.

ABA is just a method of training, it's a tool, it can be used with many goals.
What I find very wrong is a goal to make a child "indistinguishable from their peers".

They make it sound like that autism is created by environment. That autistic kids can make their siblings be autistic. I know my mom believes this too and so does my husband but he believes you need to have the gene to develop autism. An NT child that doesn't have the gene won't develop autism from their environment. My mom believes I would have been more autistic if I didn't get treatment as a child and if I was kept in my self contained classroom and I might be in a group home or something and been a Nell.

I have heard stories about kids outgrowing autism and now they were "normal." Raun Kaufman was one of them but I have seen comments saying he was misdiagnosed but he believes he was severely autistic and then grew out of it thanks to early intervention his parents gave him and they started the Sun Rise Program. So far he has not burned out and regressed.

Using the word "prevent" is inappropriate. Autism can't be "prevented" and the implication here is not good.

However, early intervention to help children with autism can help them learn to communicate more effectively, manage their anxiety, and decrease the intensity of meltdowns.

I don't believe the goal should be to eradicate autism but I don't think that's the real goal here, and early intervention doesn't change kids for the worse and it doesn't erase their autism because it's not meant to. It's meant to help them. My son is successful in school and life because he had speech therapy, occupational therapy, ABA therapy, and he can effectively calm himself down enough so it doesn't escalate to a full blown meltdown. Because, I don't know about you, but it's way more frustrating to have to figure out everything on your own, or not being able to get the people around you to understand you. It sure was for me growing up.