Oct. 23, 2009 - New Son --Happy Son
When you have a son or daughter with autism your life is turned up on it's head. No one really understands why autism is happening, or what causes it. How then are we suppose to figure out how to help our children recover.
I think that every child has their own story. My son's story goes like this, he was born 10lb 9 oz, health (big, but healthy) he was some where between 22 & 24" long. He developed normally, up until about 16 1/2 months (this is also when our daughter was born). He lost all his words, even his sound. His ability to sit and scribble was gone also his fine motor ability was no longer there. I didn't know what happen to our son.
Well we had the fight of our lives we experienced all kinds of therapy, seminars, doctors appointments and tears. We even tried the public school system.
What worked for our son doesn't work for all but here is what has worked so far.
The gluten/casien free diet (1st thing we did for 2 1/2 to 3 years)
ABA- applied behavior analysis
Floortime
In home program (28 hours a week, with volunteers)
Speech and OT (which he is still in- this is year 7 )
DAN doctors (they were good to help analysis what was going on physically)
Natural Detox, from the time he was 5 years old until he was 7 we went to a lady that help take away the mercury and other metals that were in his body, the speech and occupational therapist saw so much progress one of them went with us to see the treatment for herself.
We even tried SSRI's (this year starting in Jan) we tried them, and for my son, he became angry, quite being as verbal and started hitting and kicking- we almost got kicked out of therapy.
So I took him off of the SSRI's and then found another person close by that could help him naturally. She has been working to detox the body again and now I have my son back. He is more verbal than before, happier and has stopped all kicking and hitting.
Please know that I am not saying that SSRI's are bad--for some they are a life saver and most children do have success. But not for all. If you have a child that has autism, don't give up look. I do believe that there is a physical reason that autism is happening to our children.
