I would like to know the best forms of discipline for a child with autism. I have a friend who beats, yells at, calls names, and curses at her autistic son. She is a single mom raising him and I know it is hard, but I would like to give her some logical advise and I don't really know too much about autism. Everytime I try to tell her something that I read or heard about to help her, she just says "yeah I've already tried that it doesn't work for him". I am afraid her son is very confused and she is making it worse. He is an agressive child and has tantrums all the time.