www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom No matter how hard I tried nothing worked to change Ryan’s biting and squeezing before we did the medical piece and started the antifungals. Compliance training is difficult. You can only work on eliminating one behavior at a time. And when you master that you go…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom When you hear the words “your child has autism” everything changes. Autism Island is extremely overwhelming, and difficult to navigate on your own. But with hard work and perserverance you have the power to change your child’s future. I wrote my son’s recovery story called I…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom The key to helping our kids is to ignore inappropriate behaviors as much as possible and to reward the behaviors you want to see more of. Sometimes for our children it is hard to discover what is rewarding but I say use the things they love…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom My son did not limit his difficult behaviors to only the daylight hours. Getting Ryan to sleep started to become more difficult with each passing day. We attributed this new development to separation anxiety and his excitement over all his new motor accomplishments. Whenever we…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom The best way I can explain the frustration that children with autism feel because they can’t communicate is with a chocolate analogy. Imagine your favorite candy bar is right in front of you and you missed lunch. You are starving. Your blood sugar plummets along…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom Toilet training is a challenge for any child, but when your kid has autism it seems like it may never happen. It is a good thing I had Megan first or I might not have known what to do with Ryan. I used the same methods…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom After we helped Ryan’s dysfunctional immune system start to work again, we still needed to catch him up on all he missed with direct teaching until he started to learn like typical kids. The book Social Skills for Special Children by Darlene Mannix helped immensely with…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom Children are recovering from autism and yet most doctors don’t even know this is possible. Finding the right doctor to treat the subset of autism our children suffer from, still remains one of our biggest challenges. Autism is complicated and results from many medical issues combined.…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Finding a doctor who knows how to treat autism still remains to be one of a parent’s biggest challenges. NOT ALL DOCTORS are created equal! And finding the right one sometimes takes time. There is a shortage of doctors who know what autism really is or…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom Why are we all afraid to use prescription drugs to help our children? I used to be one of those parents who only wanted to use supplements and natural remedies. But I changed my mind. Some of our children need prescription drugs to get better. I am…
