by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.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 talking to Ryan about…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com 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 autoimmune conditions like autism…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.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 the results are not…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com Just getting Ryan to take the medications at the beginning of his medical treatment was a major accomplishment. Back then, 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…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.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. Children who have autism do not find the same things rewarding as typical children. It is not always easy to identify what is rewarding for…
