Raising awareness & educating about autism through my family & personal experiences. I have 6 children, several on various levels of the autistic spectrum.
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
I completed a lengthy phone consult for both Big Guy & Little Guy with the homeopaths on Friday. They are a totally different lot from some we've tried in past, well versed in autism, plenty of experience, & working through sequential with support remedies. The support does seem very good, which will be important for us. Everything should come in this week & I'll try to get them started right away. I'm ending Big Guy's antiviral protocol, however, I will keep both boys going on all the naturals, which are safe & helpful (with a change here & there as needed).
I'm searching for a source for raw goat's milk at the moment. It's the healthiest kind of milk for a human, & actually closest in composition to a human mother's milk. The typical store or health food store fare is foul tasting; even some of the raw can get quite sour, depending on how the goats are treated, if they are fed organically, & if they are given any meds or antibiotics. From what I'm told it should not taste like that. So we checked out a farm not too far from us today but that didn't work out; actually no one was there. But that was better off as I wasn't too comfy with the conditions there, even though they were licensed.. So the search continues.
I tried to get us going on the OS for RDI today, but the system is down so I'll have to try again this week. The consultant we will most likely be working with is out of state but will travel to us when the time comes during the RDA process (simply put, parent-child evals etc), so we still need to work out the details on that.
We've got quite a full week of work coming up, & will continue on through the summer. Storyman will probably continue on what he's presently doing, until Fall when I make a change, but I might move Butterfly into first grade work sometime this summer. Again it all depends on the decisions on programs, as I figure that out. I may just end up starting them both fresh sooner rather than later.
On another note, I had been trying to decide on how to honor the Lord's day more since I can't get out to church right now, & so I prepared most of the vitamins yesterday for everyone, so that they only needed the usual before each meal mixing & administering. I also decided I would not do the main laundry today, for Sunday only, except for anything that became soiled (since I just can't stand to have that sit-yuck). I've done 3 (small) loads today, a tad worse than usual in soilage (if that's a word). Oh well, I'll keep trying.
I was going to email you and ask how the consult went, and then I saw this. I was also going to ask about your curriculum, and I read yesterday's post! You answered both of my questions! :)
I'm looking for something to help J learn to read. He wants to read so badly, but still gets frustrated easily and has a very short attention span. I tried 100 Easy Lessons but that didn't work for him.
I hope you find goat's milk. You're right in saying that fresh, raw is a whole different puppy than anything that's available in the stores, even the health food stores.
BTW, I'm not into the Hallmark Holidays, either...
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