by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com It is not like I woke up one day and BAM my kid was better. Although Ryan is now an aerospace engineer, his recovery from autism was S-L-O-W. It took years. After two steps forward, he’d take one step back. Sometimes it was two steps forward,…
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By Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com It was hard to keep talking to a kid who didn’t acknowledge anything I said. Sometimes, it feels as if we are caretakers of an absent soul. But you must remember your child really is in there, even if he/she can’t communicate that yet. I kept…
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www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom The term MTHFR (methylenetetrahydrofolate) may sounds like a “bad word,” but it isn’t. It is just an acronym for a very important enzyme our bodies need. The MTHFR plays an important role in the methylation cycle. Cutting edge research has clearly linked impaired methylation problems with…
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By Marcia Hinds – Ryan and Megan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Initially, it was hard to tell which medical interventions were working. How can you tell if a medication is working when your child has limited verbal ability and prefers his own inner world to the one where everyone else lives? Improvements in speech take time and…
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by Ryan and Megan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Just getting Ryan to take the medications at the beginning of his medical treatment was a major accomplishment. He was still too young to swallow pills and some of the medications only came in adult sizes. I tried what seemed like a hundred different ways to solve this problem.…
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An excerpt from I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE by Donna B. (Another Mom in the A-Club) www.autism-and-treatment.com Full disclosure: Back when I was single, child-free, and clueless, I thought I knew best, rolled my eyes and spouted my opinions with the best of them. I had opinions about how I would and could do it…
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By Marcia Hinds – Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com For Ryan we used our own modified version of ABA to teach him all the things he missed when he was too ill to learn. But to be effective it was essential to discover what my child loved and use that to teach him. Children who have autism…
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Don’t measure your children’s progress by how much language they have. It takes a “typical” child almost three years to learn language, so if your child doesn’t immediately start speaking after starting medical treatments that doesn’t mean the interventions aren’t working. After you address the immune issues, you still need an intensive rehab program to catch…
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One of my favorite things Ryan’s dad did through the years was a little vengeful, and maybe even a little mean. Whenever Ryan did anything extraordinary, Frank sent an email to the psychiatrist who diagnosed my son. He’d inform her of the new and wonderful thing Ryan just accomplished, which she said could never happen.…
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Antiviral and Antifungal Medications and Die-off by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s mom www.autism-and-treatment.com My son is now recovered and an aerospace engineer. For him, antiviral and antifungal medications were life-changing. When I first looked up the side effects of these prescription drugs, I was terrified. But I soon realized that if my son…
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