autism

[Guest guest]

We have only seen two children with mild Autism and we had some slow but

moderate success with CZ/FZ/A2 inhibiting theta and rewarding alpha and SMR.

I too would be interested if others have had further success.

Autism

> Dear members,

>

> I am asked by a mother of 5 year old autistic girl what NF can do for

> her.

> She likes music and sings a lot. But almost no word comes from her.

> She used to say some words like " I want " but stopped saying them

> about 2 months ago.

> Any advices will be appreciated concerning about protocols.

>

> Jo Sato

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Jo,

Autism usually responds well to C4 and C4-Pz if hyperactive. I have seen some

amazing changes with this protocol in increase in social skills. It is,

however, a long-term process for Autism and usually needs home training because

of the expense.

We had a teenager who did only the C4 protocol for 10 months at home and began

making friends and

going out with them. He even asked to go to a dance and his father took him and

observed, as this was a totally new behavior. The boy danced with a girl and

his parents were delighted by this and all the other changes he had made. Among

several others we trained was a 3 year old with no speech who began talking his

mother's ear off after 3 months of training. Check the www.eegspectrum.com

site. they may have this case listed.

If speech does not improve left side training can be added later. But do not

begin with left side training. A full assessment will help determine what all

needs to be addressed.

Rosemary

Autism

Dear members,

I am asked by a mother of 5 year old autistic girl what NF can do for

her.

She likes music and sings a lot. But almost no word comes from her.

She used to say some words like " I want " but stopped saying them

about 2 months ago.

Any advices will be appreciated concerning about protocols.

Jo Sato

[Guest guest]

I have worked with 3 boys (ages 4 to 10) who were diag w/Asperger's

over the past 4 years. They have all experienced improvement in social

awareness(reduction of theta), transitioning from tasks-(reduction in

beta cohereence), and improved acedemic success.

I have found that using Pete's basic

instruction's-look at what the brain activity shows you-goes along way.

I have used protocols that were needed by the brain , and adjusted

them accordingly.

Sincerely

Marsha

-- In , " Anchorpoint " <anchorpoint@a...>

wrote:

> We have only seen two children with mild Autism and we had some slow but

> moderate success with CZ/FZ/A2 inhibiting theta and rewarding alpha

and SMR.

> I too would be interested if others have had further success.

> Autism

>

>

> > Dear members,

> >

> > I am asked by a mother of 5 year old autistic girl what NF can do for

> > her.

> > She likes music and sings a lot. But almost no word comes from her.

> > She used to say some words like " I want " but stopped saying them

> > about 2 months ago.

> > Any advices will be appreciated concerning about protocols.

> >

> > Jo Sato

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Hi Jo,

I use to see a 7 year old, nonverbal girl with Autism. I used a bipolar, C3/C4

(both active leads) and Fp1 for both references while the ear lobe was the

ground.

She came to see me from DC on her vacation- So my time was limited with her so

were VERY intense. I saw her daily for three weeks for 2 times in a day. I

used the multitrace from Stens and we did SMR/ Beta for 10 minutes each. I

continued this for one hour session.

She started talking in 2-3 word sentences during this time. She stopped

throwing her physical tantrums and started initiating " tickle-play " with her

mother.

This was an exciting girl to work with and one that I will continue to remember!

Good-Luck!!

Lise' DeLong, Ph.D.

[Guest guest]

Jo,

Of course Autism is a spectrum, not a single issue, so there are many

different possible issues.

In most cases I have seen, the biggest problem is a dramatic inability of

the filtering system to function, so there is no screening of sensory inputs

and often little screening of motor or emotional outputs. This often

results in high beta coherence (and beta levels) at the back of the head and

very little alpha.

As several people have commented already, the training of SMR on the right

side and/or with a parietal connection often has a very dramatic effect on

improving the brain's ability to screen, thus creating a more comprehensible

environment and permitting other things to happen. Then training beta

speeds may help with language issues.

Be aware that, especially with young clients, very short sessions (thus

home-based training is helpful) are often most successful early on.

Pete

Autism

Dear members,

I am asked by a mother of 5 year old autistic girl what NF can do for

her.

She likes music and sings a lot. But almost no word comes from her.

She used to say some words like " I want " but stopped saying them

about 2 months ago.

Any advices will be appreciated concerning about protocols.

Jo Sato

[Guest guest]

Jo,

I have had great success working with an Asperger's child...we continue

work though we have worked for nearly 2yrs now. I started C4 then progressing

to C4Pz rewarding SMR, inhibiting Theta & HiB. Eventually (year or so later)

we were able to move into B work at C3 then into C3Fz. He has had many social

advances as well as attention,etc once B was started. He was verbal when we

started and extremely hyper.

Just wanted to encourage you to work with this client!

[Guest guest]

-- autism

Mr. President Bush

Hello my name is Charlene Port. I have 3 biological children. Two

of them with autism. We were a military family. We got some services in

Anchorage Alaska then my husband got transfered to Fort Dix NJ. While in

Pemberton township New Jersey we received excellent services. When my

husband retired military in october 2000 we moved to where I grew up at

Trinidad Colorado. Since we been in Trinidad Colorado we have discovered

that nothing is based on disability and everything is based on being low

income. We were low income at one point. We were insured with the state

under CHP plus which refused my son speech therapy stating autism is not a

disability! Six and a half months later I won by pushing senate bill 1088

and Colorado Revised Statute 10-10-104.B at them. Even though we were low

income we were denied Handicapped childrens Program because autism was not

considered a disability. I didnt fight that one because we got chp plus

and I spent 6 1/2 months fighting speech therapy.

My son has not received FAPE and probably never will here. They

placed my son with a teacher who had no training with 15 other students.

My sons teacher received approximately $15,000 a year. To make matters

worse the school is not controlled by the school board Trinidad school

district one its controlled by the Las Animas county government which

receives many Colorado state funds. My son received no occupational

therapy and only 45 minutes a week speech. MOst of the time Marie Sciacca

never showed up or came 10 minutes late and left 10 minutes early. We

received no transportation. January 2002 I sent Pam Samack director of

southeastern Boces Colorado a certified letter stating I want an emergency

IEP meeting. This woman ignored it completely. It wasnt until my

advocate Ann Dosen showed up at an Colorado department of education meeting

in Denver that made Pam Samack comply. March 2002 an emergency IEP meeting

in which was 4 hours long and was alot of argueing back and forth. At this

time I discovered they video taped my son without my permission which turned

out to be for my favor anyway. Also accused my son of not being autistic

and I needed medical proof from this state Colorado that my paperwork from

walter reed army medical center in land wasnt good enough. Nothing

was accomplished and at the end of themeeting the director of COG (las

animas county controlled preschool) Debbie Hartman asked me if I am on the

same page of them? This woman had not a clue and has never taken any

special education classes!

June 2002 IEP meeting to discuss summer services in which Ann Pierce

attended. Ann Pierce told me Colorado is a highly republican state and we

believe in local control. Meaning that CDE stays out of local affairs at

any cost! My son (nonverbal) got summer services which consisted of speech

therapy 30 minutes twice a week. I WAS SHOCKED! Then it was discussed

what would happen next year. Ann Pierce stated Colorado law says they do

not have to provide school to children except from the ages of 7 to 16! She

works for CDE. Headstart said we make too much money, and Cog counsil of

governments we had a major falling out with them, Aguilar public schools

were too crowded until they got there new building and primero just flat out

told me they will not and dont have to take children of that nature!

Also told that federal law states provide services so it could even mean 5

minutes a week doesnt matter. Mr. President is that your idea of no child

left behind? Now I had topark a RV in RAton New Mexico so my son can go

to school.

Thanks for your time.

Charlene Port of Trinidad Colorado

[Guest guest]

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[Guest guest]

Charlene you are one tough woman, it is a shame that we even have to fight

for these things for our children. I dont understand why we need more nuclear

weapons when there is enough to destroy the world 50 times over already. They

should be using that money to fund programs for out children, Not just

autistic children either. Mainstreama children dont have hardly any exposer

to the arts or music, no MTV doesnt count. Things need to change. Our

children will be running the country when Bush is 80. Maybe then he will

think about all the things he COULD have done to improve education so " No

child gets left behind " .

Pennie

[Guest guest]

thanks Pennie! I dont feel tough though I feel helpless, frustrated

and like I am talking to myself LOL. You hit the nail right on the head

with president Bush. Its a scary thought that our children will be running

things later on without enough educational resources. I have never thought

of it that way Penny but its true that is when the full effect of the

present will show its true value the future. Charlene

-- Re: Fw: autism

Charlene you are one tough woman, it is a shame that we even have to fight

for these things for our children. I dont understand why we need more

nuclear

weapons when there is enough to destroy the world 50 times over already.

They

should be using that money to fund programs for out children, Not just

autistic children either. Mainstreama children dont have hardly any exposer

to the arts or music, no MTV doesnt count. Things need to change. Our

children will be running the country when Bush is 80. Maybe then he will

think about all the things he COULD have done to improve education so " No

child gets left behind " .

Pennie

[Guest guest]

THIS IS ONE OF MY IGNORED LETTERS

-- autism

Mr. President Bush

Hello my name is Charlene Port. I have 3 biological children. Two

of them with autism. We were a military family. We got some services in

Anchorage Alaska then my husband got transfered to Fort Dix NJ. While in

Pemberton township New Jersey we received excellent services. When my

husband retired military in october 2000 we moved to where I grew up at

Trinidad Colorado. Since we been in Trinidad Colorado we have discovered

that nothing is based on disability and everything is based on being low

income. We were low income at one point. We were insured with the state

under CHP plus which refused my son speech therapy stating autism is not a

disability! Six and a half months later I won by pushing senate bill 1088

and Colorado Revised Statute 10-10-104.B at them. Even though we were low

income we were denied Handicapped childrens Program because autism was not

considered a disability. I didnt fight that one because we got chp plus

and I spent 6 1/2 months fighting speech therapy.

My son has not received FAPE and probably never will here. They

placed my son with a teacher who had no training with 15 other students.

My sons teacher received approximately $15,000 a year. To make matters

worse the school is not controlled by the school board Trinidad school

district one its controlled by the Las Animas county government which

receives many Colorado state funds. My son received no occupational

therapy and only 45 minutes a week speech. MOst of the time Marie Sciacca

never showed up or came 10 minutes late and left 10 minutes early. We

received no transportation. January 2002 I sent Pam Samack director of

southeastern Boces Colorado a certified letter stating I want an emergency

IEP meeting. This woman ignored it completely. It wasnt until my

advocate Ann Dosen showed up at an Colorado department of education meeting

in Denver that made Pam Samack comply. March 2002 an emergency IEP meeting

in which was 4 hours long and was alot of argueing back and forth. At this

time I discovered they video taped my son without my permission which turned

out to be for my favor anyway. Also accused my son of not being autistic

and I needed medical proof from this state Colorado that my paperwork from

walter reed army medical center in land wasnt good enough. Nothing

was accomplished and at the end of themeeting the director of COG (las

animas county controlled preschool) Debbie Hartman asked me if I am on the

same page of them? This woman had not a clue and has never taken any

special education classes!

June 2002 IEP meeting to discuss summer services in which Ann Pierce

attended. Ann Pierce told me Colorado is a highly republican state and we

believe in local control. Meaning that CDE stays out of local affairs at

any cost! My son (nonverbal) got summer services which consisted of speech

therapy 30 minutes twice a week. I WAS SHOCKED! Then it was discussed

what would happen next year. Ann Pierce stated Colorado law says they do

not have to provide school to children except from the ages of 7 to 16! She

works for CDE. Headstart said we make too much money, and Cog counsil of

governments we had a major falling out with them, Aguilar public schools

were too crowded until they got there new building and primero just flat out

told me they will not and dont have to take children of that nature!

Also told that federal law states provide services so it could even mean 5

minutes a week doesnt matter. Mr. President is that your idea of no child

left behind? Now I had topark a RV in RAton New Mexico so my son can go

to school.

Thanks for your time.

Charlene Port of Trinidad Colorado

[Guest guest]

Try contacting Dr. Bradstreet at info@... or (321) 953-0278.

autism

Hi,

Does anyone have experience with autistic kids?

Or know good sources to learn about NF for autism?

I will have a workshop for parents with autistic kids, and I want to

be more prepared.

Debi

[Guest guest]

We worked with a number of autistic children in Atlanta over the ten years I worked there. Autism is way out on the Filtering spectrum, so I would generally start with a C4/A2 SMR up/theta down protocol. You will have to work with very short training segments and pay attention to keeping the stimulation level low. Animation Pro is definitely overpowering for many of these clients, whose ability to screen incoming sensations is very limited. You might even start with just pitch feedback. Depending on the client's ability to tolerate, we often began with 10 or even 5 minutes of training for a session in the beginning, working up to 20 minutes as they improved.

This population, with Tourettes, PDD and closed head injuries, among others, has always seemed to me to cry out for a home-based machine. When the sessions can be done at home, length is less of an object and the client can do literally hundreds of sessions over years, which is often how the really astounding improvements come about.

Pete

-----Original Message-----Hi,Does anyone have experience with autistic kids?Or know good sources to learn about NF for autism? I will have a workshop for parents with autistic kids, and I want to be more prepared.Debi

[Guest guest]

Liz (and others)

We also have an awesome resource here in Texas - Jeff Sell. He's in

Houston, father of 9-year old twins with autism, and he's the 1st

Vice President and Chairman of the Government Relations Committee of

the Autism Society of America. He's also an attorney and heavily

involved with the vaccine litigation and is in it for the kids and

not for the $!!!!

P.S. If you end up finding a chart for autism per school district,

let me know - I'm always curious as I continue to meet more parents

from my own school district (Frisco) that do either home school or

private school their children...what percentage we are of the total

# in Frisco. Haven't ever come across that.

Here's Jeff's contact info:

Z. Sell, P.C.

Attorney-at-Law

4309 Yoakum Boulevard

2nd Floor

Houston, TX 77006

713.654.7776

713.654.7789 (fax)

832.731-3145 (v-mail)

JZSell@H...

www.JZSLAW.com

> I am looking for information regarding Texas Special education and

how it

> compares to other states that are more progressive in their

eductional roles

> with autism. Also, I am looking for how many children are

registered in Texas

> Special education as well as a breakdown of how many children are

> registered with autism. I am also wondering if the State

legislature has

> recognized autism. Have they brought it to the forefront of

discussions and

> topics. Where are we in Texas regarding Autism. Are we ranked

49 and

> slow to move up? Oh I could go on but I will stop there.

Thanks Liz

[Guest guest]

Liz (and others)

We also have an awesome resource here in Texas - Jeff Sell. He's in

Houston, father of 9-year old twins with autism, and he's the 1st

Vice President and Chairman of the Government Relations Committee of

the Autism Society of America. He's also an attorney and heavily

involved with the vaccine litigation and is in it for the kids and

not for the $!!!!

P.S. If you end up finding a chart for autism per school district,

let me know - I'm always curious as I continue to meet more parents

from my own school district (Frisco) that do either home school or

private school their children...what percentage we are of the total

# in Frisco. Haven't ever come across that.

Here's Jeff's contact info:

Z. Sell, P.C.

Attorney-at-Law

4309 Yoakum Boulevard

2nd Floor

Houston, TX 77006

713.654.7776

713.654.7789 (fax)

832.731-3145 (v-mail)

JZSell@H...

www.JZSLAW.com

> I am looking for information regarding Texas Special education and

how it

> compares to other states that are more progressive in their

eductional roles

> with autism. Also, I am looking for how many children are

registered in Texas

> Special education as well as a breakdown of how many children are

> registered with autism. I am also wondering if the State

legislature has

> recognized autism. Have they brought it to the forefront of

discussions and

> topics. Where are we in Texas regarding Autism. Are we ranked

49 and

> slow to move up? Oh I could go on but I will stop there.

Thanks Liz

[Guest guest]

Why thank you for the kind words. I have not seen such a chart showing

the numbers on a district-by-district basis recently. I may have something

like that at home. I'll check tonight and forward the info/link if I find

it.

My best.

Peacefully,

Jeff Sell

Z. Sell, P.C.

Attorney-at-Law

4309 Yoakum Boulevard

2nd Floor

Houston, TX 77006

713.654.7776

713.654.7789 (fax)

832.731-3145 (v-mail)

JZSell@...

JZSLAW@...

www.JZSLAW.com <http://www.JZSLAW.com>

Re: autism

Liz (and others)

We also have an awesome resource here in Texas - Jeff Sell. He's in

Houston, father of 9-year old twins with autism, and he's the 1st

Vice President and Chairman of the Government Relations Committee of

the Autism Society of America. He's also an attorney and heavily

involved with the vaccine litigation and is in it for the kids and

not for the $!!!!

P.S. If you end up finding a chart for autism per school district,

let me know - I'm always curious as I continue to meet more parents

from my own school district (Frisco) that do either home school or

private school their children...what percentage we are of the total

# in Frisco. Haven't ever come across that.

Here's Jeff's contact info:

Z. Sell, P.C.

Attorney-at-Law

4309 Yoakum Boulevard

2nd Floor

Houston, TX 77006

713.654.7776

713.654.7789 (fax)

832.731-3145 (v-mail)

JZSell@H...

www.JZSLAW.com

> I am looking for information regarding Texas Special education and

how it

> compares to other states that are more progressive in their

eductional roles

> with autism. Also, I am looking for how many children are

registered in Texas

> Special education as well as a breakdown of how many children are

> registered with autism. I am also wondering if the State

legislature has

> recognized autism. Have they brought it to the forefront of

discussions and

> topics. Where are we in Texas regarding Autism. Are we ranked

49 and

> slow to move up? Oh I could go on but I will stop there.

Thanks Liz

[Guest guest]

Why thank you for the kind words. I have not seen such a chart showing

the numbers on a district-by-district basis recently. I may have something

like that at home. I'll check tonight and forward the info/link if I find

it.

My best.

Peacefully,

Jeff Sell

Z. Sell, P.C.

Attorney-at-Law

4309 Yoakum Boulevard

2nd Floor

Houston, TX 77006

713.654.7776

713.654.7789 (fax)

832.731-3145 (v-mail)

JZSell@...

JZSLAW@...

www.JZSLAW.com <http://www.JZSLAW.com>

Re: autism

Liz (and others)

We also have an awesome resource here in Texas - Jeff Sell. He's in

Houston, father of 9-year old twins with autism, and he's the 1st

Vice President and Chairman of the Government Relations Committee of

the Autism Society of America. He's also an attorney and heavily

involved with the vaccine litigation and is in it for the kids and

not for the $!!!!

P.S. If you end up finding a chart for autism per school district,

let me know - I'm always curious as I continue to meet more parents

from my own school district (Frisco) that do either home school or

private school their children...what percentage we are of the total

# in Frisco. Haven't ever come across that.

Here's Jeff's contact info:

Z. Sell, P.C.

Attorney-at-Law

4309 Yoakum Boulevard

2nd Floor

Houston, TX 77006

713.654.7776

713.654.7789 (fax)

832.731-3145 (v-mail)

JZSell@H...

www.JZSLAW.com

> I am looking for information regarding Texas Special education and

how it

> compares to other states that are more progressive in their

eductional roles

> with autism. Also, I am looking for how many children are

registered in Texas

> Special education as well as a breakdown of how many children are

> registered with autism. I am also wondering if the State

legislature has

> recognized autism. Have they brought it to the forefront of

discussions and

> topics. Where are we in Texas regarding Autism. Are we ranked

49 and

> slow to move up? Oh I could go on but I will stop there.

Thanks Liz

[Guest guest]

This article was from the New York Times. sharron fuchs dc

Re: Autism

What was this FROM!? It reads like a public pacifier announcement. Was this an Eli Lilly commercial? (:-)

Autism

February 24, 2004

Lifting the Veils of Autism, One by One by OneBy ERICA GOODE

e is blond and 3 years old, 33 pounds of compressed energy wrapped in OshKosh overalls.

In an evaluation room at Yale's Child Study Center, he ignores Big Bird, pauses to watch the bubbles that a social worker blows through a wand, jumps up and down. But it is the two-way mirror that fascinates him, drawing him back to stare into the glass, to touch it, to lick it with his tongue.

At 17 months, after several ear infections and a bout of the flu, the toddler's budding language skills began to deteriorate, his parents tell the evaluators. In the playroom, he seems intent on his own activities and largely oblivious to the adults in the room. Only when the therapist bends down to tickle him does he give a blinding smile and meet her gaze with startling blue eyes.

Sixty years after it was first identified, autism remains one of the most puzzling of childhood disorders. Its cause or causes are still unknown. But in recent years, investigators have begun to dislodge some of its secrets.

Studies have offered clues to the brain mechanisms that may lie behind some features of autism - the tendency to focus on objects rather than human faces, for example - and geneticists have begun to home in on genes that may be involved. Scanning has provided glimpses of ways autism may affect brain development: the brains of autistic children, studies find, appear to be larger than normal for some time after birth.

In the future, experts say, such research may yield effective medical treatments to augment or even replace the intensive behavioral therapy that is the prescription most autistic children now receive.

In learning more about autism, a disorder that in some form affects at least 425,000 Americans under 18, scientists may also increase knowledge about language development, emotion, even friendship and love.

"Ultimately, research on autism may teach us a lot about what it means to be social," said Dr. Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Autistic children were once thought to have a form of childhood schizophrenia. Prone to repetitive, sometimes self-destructive behaviors and driven by "a powerful desire for aloneness and sameness," as Dr. Leo Kanner of s Hopkins put it in a now classic 1943 paper, they often spent their lives in institutions. Parents watched helplessly as their children disappeared into a world beyond their reach.

But much has changed. The notion that autism was caused by "refrigerator" mothers and absent fathers, promoted by psychoanalysts in the 1950's and 1960's, has yielded to the realization that the disorder is strongly rooted in genetics and abnormalities of brain development and function. Environmental influences early in life may also play a role.

At the same time, a sharp rise over the last decade in the number of autism cases diagnosed in the United States and other countries has raised public awareness and helped secure more government financing for research.

In the 2003 fiscal year, the National Institutes of Health spent an estimated $81.3 million on autism research, compared with $9.6 million in 1993.

The last two decades have brought a sea change in the way scientists view autism and those who suffer from it.

Researchers now recognize, for example, that autism is not synonymous with mental retardation: more than 80 percent of children with autism were once thought to be mentally retarded.

More recent estimates place the number at 70 percent, or lower if related disorders are included.

Dr. Kanner believed autism to be a product of upper-middle-class homes, a conclusion based on the children he examined, who were the progeny of doctors, lawyers and scientists. But it is now clear that autism crosses class boundaries.

Boys are four times as likely as girls to have the disorder. This sex ratio has led one researcher, Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the autism research center at Cambridge University in England, to speculate that autism is a form of "extreme maleness," but the theory has yet to be supported by research.

More rigorous studies have allowed clinicians to identify autism in children of younger and younger ages. In the past, the disorder often was not diagnosed until children were 4 or 5. But by studying home movies of birthday parties or first baths, investigators have found telltale signs of autism in children of 12 months or younger.

Dr. Geraldine Dawson, director of the University of Washington's autism center, for example, studied infants from 8 to 10 months old who were later identified as autistic. The infants, she said, often failed to respond when parents called their names.

"Even very young babies, when you call their name, will turn and look at you," Dr. Dawson said.

As toddlers, autistic children show other differences. For example, they make eye contact less frequently, and, unlike most 1-year-olds, do not point at objects or people.

Autism's hallmarks are a delay in language development, an inability to relate to other people and stereotyped or rigid behavior. But researchers have found that children vary greatly in the nature and the severity of their disabilities.

"If you put 100 people with autism in a room, the first thing that would strike you is how different they are," said Dr. Fred Volkmar, a professor of child psychiatry at Yale and an expert on autism. "The next thing that would strike you is the similarity."

Some children attend regular schools, others are so disabled they require institutional care. Some children speak fluently, others are mute. Some are completely withdrawn; others successfully navigate a path through the outer world.

In fact, studies show that many children with autism can improve with treatment, and some - from 15 to 20 percent, experts say - recover completely, holding jobs and living independent lives.

Yet the realization that autism takes many forms has also made its diagnosis more complicated. In 1994, psychiatrists added a new diagnostic category - Asperger's syndrome - to the psychiatric nomenclature, to take account of children who displayed some features of autism but did not meet the full diagnostic criteria.

Many researchers view Asperger's as distinct from autism. But the differences become blurred in cases where children have normal or above normal I.Q.'s. In such instances, experts say, whether Asperger's or autism is diagnosed is often arbitrary.

"I don't think anyone's got good evidence for a clear distinction between people with high-functioning autism and Asperger's," said Dr. Tony Charman, a researcher in neurodevelopmental disorders at University College London.

The Disconnect

Calculations, Yes;

Eye Contact, No

As a child, Jensen lay in bed at night, tracing numbers in the air with his finger. He memorized lottery numbers. He was riveted by the pages of the calendar.

Now 19, his facility with mathematical calculation seems magical. Given any date - Jan. 7, 1988, for example - he can, in an instant, identify the day of the week it fell on. (It was a Thursday.) He virtually never makes mistakes.

Yet even in childhood, there were signs that was exceptional in other ways. He was mesmerized by the washing machine, becoming upset if the laundry was finished before he got up in the morning. He started talking late. Once, when his grandmother slipped on some ice in the yard and fell, he continued to chatter about numbers, seemingly oblivious to her plight.

Problems in school led doctors to diagnose autism when was 6, his uncle, Glen Jensen, said. As an adult, 's gifts - he is among the 1 to 10 percent of people with autism known as autistic savants - connect him to the world. "What day were you born?" he asks visitors.

But the things that cannot do also separate him from other people. He rarely makes eye contact. Ask him how he calculates dates or what numbers mean to him and the inquiries are met with silence. His ability to empathize with other people has grown over the years - " was angry today, and that was upsetting to me," he will say - but unexpected events disturb him, and his conversations sometimes take the form of asking questions over and over.

What lies at autism's core? Over the decades, researchers have come up with a variety of theories. But most were based on what clinicians observed, not on what might be going on in the brain. Only recently have sophisticated technologies allowed researchers to begin bridging the gap between the consulting room and the laboratory.

Dr. Ami Klin, an associate professor of child psychology and psychiatry at Yale, and his colleagues began with the observation that people with autism often have a great deal of intellectual knowledge, but lack "street smarts," and are unable to use what they know in social situations.

"Many of our clients know the currencies of all countries in the world, but they cannot go to Mc's and buy a burger and count the change," Dr. Klin said. "They know all the bus ramps, but can't take a bus."

In a series of experiments to find out why it is so difficult for someone with autism to function in the world, the Yale team , including Warren , a research associate, developed a device for tracking eye movements that could be mounted on the brim of a baseball cap. Then they had subjects, who either had autism or did not, watch a video clip from the 1967 film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and monitored their gaze.

The normal subjects closely tracked the social interactions among the actors in the films, focusing especially on the actors' eyes. In contrast, people with autism focused on objects in the room, on various parts of the actors' bodies and on the actors' mouths.

In one scene, Burton and kiss. The subjects without autism looked at the actors' embrace; the autistic subjects' eyes went elsewhere: one man stared at a doorknob in the background.

Such research suggests that from birth, the brains of autistic children are wired differently, shaping their perception of the world and other people. "In normal development," he said, "being looked at, being in the presence of another, seeking another - most of what people consider important emerges from this mutually reinforcing choreography between child and adult."

If this duet cannot take place, Dr. Klin said, "development is going to be derailed."

Studies using brain scanning techniques like fast M.R.I. lend weight to the idea that for people with autism, perception molds behavior.

"There is a deep relationship between what we see and what we know," said Dr. Schultz, an associate professor at Yale's Child Study Center.

Researchers have long known, for example, that people with autism have difficulty recognizing faces. In non-autistic subjects, a brain area called the fusiform gyrus is activated in response to the human face. But when pictures of unfamiliar faces are shown to children or adults with autism, studies show, the region is less active.

Dr. Schultz said that autistic people appear to identify faces the way other people identify objects, by piecing features together. While most people are better at recognizing images of faces when they are right-side up, autistic subjects identify them faster when they are upside-down.

A recent study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle this month, illustrates this. Dr. Dawson, of the University of Washington, and a colleague reported that when autistic adolescents and adults were shown pictures of faces, another brain area involved with object recognition was activated, while the fusiform gyrus remained quiet. Yet when the researchers showed photos of the subjects' mothers, the fusiform brain did light up.

Work by Dr. Isabel Gauthier, an assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, suggests that, in fact, the fusiform gyrus is not programmed to react to faces per se but to things that people care about and learn to distinguish in detail.

Dr. Gauthier trained people to become experts on "greebles," a class of simply-drawn imaginary beings. When the subjects became adept at telling one greeble from another, she found, the fusiform gyrus lighted up in response to pictures of the creatures. Similarly, when car experts were asked to identify different car models, the region was activated, Dr. Gauthier reported last year in the journal Nature.

The research suggests that children with autism can be trained to become better at face recognition - something that scientists at Yale and other universities are trying. But the seeming indifference to the human face that often accompanies autism has led the Yale resarchers to propose that the fusiform gyrus may be a component of the social brain, intimately tied up with basic emotional responses like fear, anxiety and love.

In fact, some studies have found abnormalities in the amygdala, a brain region involved with emotion and social awareness. But the findings are inconclusive, and differences in autistic brains have been found in structure, including the temporal lobes and the cerebellum.

The Physical

A Telling Find:

Bigger Brains

In his early description of autism, Dr. Kanner noted that heads of the children were larger than normal. Modern researchers have confirmed this observation, finding that for some period of time during childhood, autistic children have bigger brains than their non-autistic counterparts. In 2001, Dr. Courchesne, a professor of neuroscience at the University of California at San Diego, and his colleagues found that 4-year-olds with autism showed increases in the volume of the brain's gray matter, where the cell bodies of neurons are located, and white matter, which contains nerve fibers sheathed with an insulating substance called myelin.

In a 2003 study in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Courchesne reported that at birth, the heads of infants with autism were smaller than normal, but then showed "sudden and excessive" growth in size from 1 to 2 months and from 6 to 14 months. By adolescence, however, the children's brains were the same size as those of other children or slightly smaller.

Dr. Martha Herbert, an instructor in pediatric neurology at Harvard, has begun to zero in on precisely where this growth spurt occurs. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in October, she reported that in autistic children, the outer zones of white matter became enlarged compared with normal brains beginning after age 6 months and continuing into the second year of life. Those outer zones, Dr. Herbert said, are insulated later in development than the areas of white matter deeper in the brain.

"It seems that something is going on that gets more intense," Dr. Herbert said.

In another study, Dr. Casanova, a professor of neurology and neuropathology at the University of Louisville, found an increase in autistic brains in the stacks of neurons known as mini-columns that extend through the layers of the neocortex. The brains of people with autism not only had more mini-columns, Dr. Casanova found, but the neurons that made up the columns were less variable in size than in normal brains.

Such findings are intriguing, but their meaning is not clear.

One possibility is that the enlargement in white matter reflects an overabundance of myelin, which could disrupt the timing of communication signals throughout the brain. But this growth in volume, Dr. Herbert said, could also represent an increase in nerve fibers, the migration of other types of cells or some type of inflammation.

Dr. Casanova, for his part, theorizes that the proliferation of mini-columns might result in a deluge of stimulation, or as he puts it, "way too much information."

"The sound of rain on a roof might seem like driving nails into a tin roof, a fluorescent light might become extremely perturbing," Dr. Casanova said.

Dr. Minshew, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Pittsburgh, argues that autism's core lies in higher brain areas, rather than in deeper structures that govern emotion.

"When I started about 20 years ago, I looked at autism and said this disorder is in the cortex of the brain," Dr. Minshew said. "It's the classical disorder of cognition."

The Genetics

Child Rearing

Not at Fault

In 1964, Bernard Rimland, a British psychologist with an autistic son, put forward the view, then controversial, that genes, not faulty child rearing, lay behind the disorder.

Most experts now agree that autism is strongly determined by heredity. Studies indicate, for example, that if parents have one child with autism, the chance that they will have a second autistic child is 2 to 6 percent - about 100 times the general risk.

Twin studies also argue for a large genetic component. Identical twins, the studies suggest, run a 60 to 85 percent chance of having autism or a similar disorder if their twins have it. For fraternal twins, the chances are 10 percent.

Two very rare forms of autism - one associated with the congenital disease known as tuberous sclerosis and the other with fragile X syndrome - are known to be caused by chromosomal defects.

But in most cases, autism is thought to have a more complex genetic origin, involving multiple genes acting together.

"The bulk of people with autism develop it because they have inherited a particular genetic predisposition," said Dr. , a professor of psychiatry at Cambridge.

Finding those genes, however, is a difficult task. The disorder is relatively uncommon, and most people with autism do not have children, making it difficult to track successive generations of a family.

To get around these obstacles, some researchers are studying families having two or more members with autism and searching for similarities in the genome that could provide the crucial link to the disorder.

Cure Autism Now, an advocacy group based in Los Angeles, has started a program to collect DNA samples from such families and use them for research.

Large-scale studies are in progress at a variety of institutions in the United States and other countries. DeCode Genetics, an Icelandic company that last year identified a gene that may contribute to schizophrenia, announced in January that it would use the Icelandic population to search for genes underlying autism and similar disorders like Asperger's.

Some researchers are also hunting for genes that may underlie specific aspects of autism.

Dr. Geschwind, director of the neurogenetics program at the University of California, Los Angeles is hoping, in a study of autistic children and their families, to find genes that contribute to the delayed development of language.

No specific gene for autism has yet been pinpointed. But promising areas have been identified on a variety of chromosomes, including the 2, 3, 7, 13, 15 and the X chromosome.

"My sense is that we are close to the tipping point in this illness," said Dr. Insel of the National Institute of Mental Health, "and that over the next couple of years we will have, not all of the genes, but many of the genes that contribute."

At the same time, the disorder is not entirely genetic, indicating that some environmental influences, either during a mother's pregnancy or in the first years of life, have roles in setting off the disorder, perhaps by changing the way genes function without actually altering DNA.

Over the years, many candidates have been proposed, including German measles during pregnancy; yeast infections; the sedative drug thalidomide; childhood vaccines; viruses; the labor-inducing drug Pitocin; and dietary, hormonal or immune system changes during pregnancy.

But so far, researchers say, solid evidence for any single factor has not emerged. Still, several research groups are trying to address the issue of environmental triggers. A study based at Columbia University, for example, will follow 100,000 pregnancies in Norway, examining a variety of environmental influences, including infections, vaccinations, mercury exposure and prenatal stresses.

Experts disagree about the importance of environmental influences. But there is a consensus that autism probably has more than one cause, its symptoms the common end point of different biological pathways.

Yet it may be some years, experts say, before scientists are able to link the findings from genetic studies and brain research with the outer signs of the perplexing world that people with autism inhabit.

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[Guest guest]

Hey there Darla

To start, I find the Autism program in the biofeedback program to be helpful..

also I like the "connection to the universe" programs for this...

I also do scalar, body/aura scan, and NLP therapies - I feel they

are all excellent to help autism...

Maggie

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Dr. Debbie has

a DVD ..I have it, it is excellent.

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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:27

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Subject: Autism

Does anyone have any good supplements and protocol on the QX for

autism?

Thanks,

Darla

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Bravo Noel very good advise, may I add also to do Prions in the Test matrix zaps as they change forms and may be involved. Also, do some work on the Timed Therapies Music and Superlearning page. ELF and put in your information to use subliminal messaging (also called the Orgone field), Phase Angle to connect to the brain, Harmonic Therapy is wonderful in this and any brain/emotional issues then go into the Timed Treatments see what comes up and also do Neurological Repair. Don't forget that the reason for the allergy connection is the weakened immune system. Deal with that and the Thymus. Any brain issue will also be connected to the digestive process (the other reason for the gluten issue and other food allergy complications causing more distress than to the others having these immune issues). As you can see, you have a lot of areas to work on, it is a slower process but a very wonderful one and the success they see is great.

KathyNoel van der Mullen <N.vandermullen@...> wrote:

check the attached, Darla and don't forget to check heavy metals on the adrenals, Noël,

Autism

Does anyone have any good supplements and protocol on the QX for autism?Thanks,Darla________________________________________________________________The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!............................................

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See the autism research results from review of about a billion vacination records at the CDC early 2004: http://www.minnesotanaturalhealth.org/Geierpresentation.doc

Appears not to be food intolerance as much as childhood vaccination related.c

darla,

autism is to do with various food intolerances, that effect the brain. find out, what the intolerances are, and if you can´t, avoid the well known stressors in food like milk, white sugar, wheat (in all variations and other gluten containig cereals) and moldy fruits. also watch for protein rich foods like meat and legumes and avoid them. food additives like sweetener (aspartame) or msg are an absolute no-no.

the small intestine is inflamed and leaky. treat it with the qx, but also with high dosage glutamine and boswellia serata. treat the large intestine with friendly bacteria.

detoxify the body with a toxin binding agent, that does not stress liver or kidneys.

hope, that gets you a little further, too.

marlene

RE: Autism

Hey there Darla

To start, I find the Autism program in the biofeedback program to be helpful..

also I like the "connection to the universe" programs for this...

I also do scalar, body/aura scan, and NLP therapies - I feel they

are all excellent to help autism...

Maggie

-----Original Message-----From: Darla J Hart [mailto:djhart52@...]Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:27 PMqxci-english Subject: AutismDoes anyone have any good supplements and protocol on the QX for autism?Thanks,Darla________________________________________________________________The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!............................................

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dear bob,

i absolutely agree, that mercury plays a key role in this disease.

i would very much love to know, HOW mercury injures the intestinal mucosa lining. through the fungal overgrowth? has anyone got some detailed info or experience on this?

it cannot be a co-incidence, that all the auto immune diseases, that have to do with leaky gut, also have to do with mercury, and many do have the link to vaccination as well.

any input????

blessings

marlene

RE: Autism

Hey there Darla

To start, I find the Autism program in the biofeedback program to be helpful..

also I like the "connection to the universe" programs for this...

I also do scalar, body/aura scan, and NLP therapies - I feel they

are all excellent to help autism...

Maggie

-----Original Message-----From: Darla J Hart [mailto:djhart52@...]Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:27 PMqxci-english Subject: AutismDoes anyone have any good supplements and protocol on the QX for autism?Thanks,Darla________________________________________________________________The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!............................................

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Dear ,

They use mercury in many vacsines . But Coke is also a very bad thing for

the gut and lots of children and grown ups get far too much every day.

Blessings

Gerd

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>Subject: Re: Autism

>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:26:39 +0200

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>dear bob,

>i absolutely agree, that mercury plays a key role in this disease.

>i would very much love to know, HOW mercury injures the intestinal mucosa

>lining. through the fungal overgrowth? has anyone got some detailed info or

>experience on this?

>it cannot be a co-incidence, that all the auto immune diseases, that have

>to do with leaky gut, also have to do with mercury, and many do have the

>link to vaccination as well.

>any input????

>blessings

>marlene

> Autism

>

>

> Does anyone have any good supplements and protocol on the QX for

>autism?

>

> Thanks,

> Darla

>

>

>

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> Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!

> Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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>

[Guest guest]

.... being a mother myself...., i would never-ever come up with the idea to

give my child coke. it´s all a question of conditioning i guess.

marlene

Autism

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> >

> > Does anyone have any good supplements and protocol on the QX for

> >autism?

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Darla

> >

> >

> >

> > ________________________________________________________________

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