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 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…
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…
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…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com It is important to remember you can’t believe all you are told about autism. That is especially true when it comes to knowing that autism is medical and TREATABLE! Almost all kids improve when the multiple problems with their immune systems can be corrected. Children are…
