by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com After we helped Ryan’s dysfunctional immune system start to work again, we 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 teaching Ryan how to behave…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com 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. Because our medical community…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com 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 beginning medical treatments that doesn’t mean the interventions aren’t working. After you address the immune issues, you still need an…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com One of my favorite things Ryan’s dad did through the years was kind of vindictive and 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 skill Ryan just accomplished. He especially…
