Is it ethical to to research for a "treatment" for autism?

I was just talking about this with my kid.  

Teaching someone skills to thrive in society is called education, giving coping skills is it’s own education of sorts but we call it therapy.  

 If I teach a blind person to use a dog to navigate city life—that is ethical.  So if I teach a severely autistic child to put on a weighted vest or a pair of headphones to navigate their sensory overload isn’t ethical—and wouldn’t figuring out dogs or headphones might help be called research?  

uh, sure. what would be unethical about treating a disease?

I would say that we need to do more research to know more about it before we consider treatment options.  The insinuation here is that there is no defect to treat but rather people are just differently abled.  Hard to say at this point.  It does at least look like a defect that some people could benefit from some treatment for, but like I said, we need to do more research to try to understand just what it is and what the causes are.

"Yes."                                                               

SHORT ANSWER - YES. Is it ethical to force someone to have treatment? That's the debatable question.