New to the group

December 11, 2002

You should be more motivated now that you are so close.. Just think what

you will be able to wear this summer!

dawnn

December 27, 2002

As yet I don’t have that problem, just getting my 8 year old to eat

anything is a battle........and healthy?? Well, what is that word

mean.......hard enough to get her to eat a banana or apple, and refuses

to try any type of vegetable, except french fries [chips]!!!! Cheryl S

[australia]

new to the group

HI,

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Jane Crawford form Oregon. I have

a 13 yr old daughter, named Breck or as I call her " The Queen " I'm

looking for some help with eating. Breck is over weight and does

not have a large variety of foods she will eat. I am also trying to

get her to chew her food and eat slower. It feels like I have tried

everything out there. My bigger concern is that her understanding of

" we are on a diet " or " we are eating healther food " . I have been

to all the Professial with not help at all. So I looking for some

angels out there. If any one has some suggestion I would love to hear

them.

Thanks

Jane and Th

December 27, 2002

Hi Jane

Welcome to the list. My name is Tracey and I live in Ontario, Canada.

I have two daughters Coral, age 12 (nt) and Skylar age 10 (HFA). This

is a great group of people I am sure you will be glad you joined.

Tracey

" janeandbreck2 " wrote:

> HI,

> Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Jane Crawford form Oregon.

> I have a 13 yr old daughter, named Breck or as I call her " The Queen "

> I'm looking for some help with eating. Breck is over weight and does

> not have a large variety of foods she will eat. I am also trying to

> get her to chew her food and eat slower. It feels like I have tried

> everything out there. My bigger concern is that her understanding of

> " we are on a diet " or " we are eating healther food " . I have been

> to all the Professial with not help at all. So I looking for some

> angels out there. If any one has some suggestion I would love to hear

>

> them.

> Thanks

> Jane and Th

>

December 28, 2002

Diane I to find too that for me and the two daughters we to be same as we to

be to have the ADHD things as well and thus stay thin and eat what we to

want. Yet on my family my mothers side to all be with weight issues and my

fathers side not. With my daughters and I we to always be busy catching up

with our racing thoughts of self play and preoccupations of self interests.

Although we stay thin our biggest is trying to push aside cravings for

healthy food choices. So it is not just staying thin but learning to make

healthy choices in food and learn to moderate things.

For the mom who to shared about her daughter maybe do like the

things and make a chart of daily allowances in certain food choices

for her and teach her through this visual chart to gauge her food and daily

food choices. Help her to understand healthy bodies and what obesity can do

to the health by means of factual things, such as what it does to the organs

such as heart and things and tell her that it is from this angle you are

concerned for health issues. Some kids with AS are concerned of things when

presented in healthy facts about ones own body. I to know when my youngest

AS son to had the health training from school on the basic food groups and

discussed dietary fat ( he was a child with failure to thrive) but he came

home worried about what dietary fat can do to hims body and for much time

refused to eat anything he felt might be of dietary fats. We had to reteach

him the moderations.

Lastly when our son was dx with failure to thrive years ago the specialist

taught us how to add calories to hims foods to increase weight gain, but

same can be done in the home during meal preparations of reducing calories

but no deep fried foods unless using a high antioxidant oil such as olive

oil or safflower oils. Use no butter in the veggies when cooking them, but

if you like butter on them add small pats when serving. Make smaller meals

instead of larger one with left overs( this prevents snacking on it later)

Put a lock on your food pantry and control the snacking by this method as

she cant get into the pantry to get snacks as leisure. Another is to not

allow grazing( snacking here and there all through out the day. If you are

going to allow a unhealthy snack allow it tight after she to eat lunch so

that she to have time to adequately burn it off instead of later where she

sleeps on the calories that turn into stored body fat since the body shuts

down some when melatonin levels begin to emerge to enhance sleep. Do not buy

sugar filled drinks anymore, buy juices that state 100% pure juice without

the fructose syrup in them, and allow her this instead of Kool-Aid's and

soda. Also if she is still on dairy reduce from whole milk to 2% or from 2%

to skim, depending on how often she drinks milk. If she is one who craves it

a lot reduce the milk fat if she is good about this and only has it at meals

it to be okay to leave it at 2%. Another thing to do is not allow her to

fill plate with second helpings without your guidance. Such as if you are

having meal and she has finished her plate but says she is still hungry the

only choice she can have seconds on would be the low caloried food on the

table such as the veggies or maybe the meat depending on the way it was

prepared and the size but not the pastas and or other things of this. I to

hope this will be to help you in helping your daughter and we to have done

all the things I to shared to you with my own children but for other reasons

not from being over weight and they do work well. With the exception my AS

children and I to stay dairy free for most part. Our bodies do not do casein

well.

Sondra

December 28, 2002

I to not meant for the mom to purchase the diet training ,

but to simulate it into a visual for your daughter to learn who to self

gauge her food intake.

Sondra

January 4, 2003

" sissycakes4luv <sissycakes@...> " <sissycakes@...> wrote:

Hi, My name is Sherri. Just wandered if anyone could relate to my 4

Yr. old Caitlin. She was diagnosed a year ago at TEACCH center in

Gastonia, NC as severly autistic. She is in a TEACCH classroom in

public school system with 6 other boys. She is the only girl. I do

not think that the TEACCH way is helping her. She is so extremely

hyper, has no language, motor skills are poor, as well as cognitive

skills. We have her on Fluoxetine for aggression and anxiety, and

clonidine for hyperactivity (she has been on clonidine for a few

months now, and I do not like it). I am so depressed. I want her to

learn. Does anyone have there child in ABA therapy? I think Caitlin

would benefit from this. I do know that it is very expensive. If

anyone

out there has a child similiar to mine could you please tell me what

kind of therapy she is receiving? Any info would be greatly

appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Sherri

Hi Sherri and welcome to the group! my daughter was also diagnosed in n.c.with

autism and after extensive research i too came to same conclusion about teacch i

think it has its merits for older children but aba is designed for early

intervention well to make a long story short we moved to california 3 months ago

where autism is taken seriously my daughter has an aba program and is recieving

30 - 35 hours a week of therapy (fully funded) and what a difference it is

making The optins in n.c. are limited and in my opinion TEACCH is not the way to

begin treatment.There is a web site called aba resources for recovery from

autism/hyperlexia put out by a man named richard i dont have access to the site

address at the moment but you can probally find it he has been a great help to

my family his site is awsome and he has done a ton of research.My attitude is

that autism can be overcome but we are in a war and must fight it with all

resources available the price is high and autism plays unfair but as im sure you

realize we are the only hope for our children! I would love to help you in any

way possible you can email me any time @ 4sabrina@... I wish you all

the best and you are on the right track with your thinking.

Best Wishes Steve

January 5, 2003

-My daughter sounded a lot like yours at that age. We started ABA a

few months before her fourth birthday. It was the best thing we ever

did. It gave her the ability to imitate and therefore speak. She is

not a child who recovered or even close but it did teach her how to

learn. She is in a regular kindergarten class this year with an

aide. She can do much of what the kids do academically but still has

big communication problems and we are still dealing with her

hyperactivity, haven't found a solution to that yet. Her language is

pretty much limited to requesting and answering simple questions but

that elimates tantrums because she can tell us what she wants. Her

receptive language increased dramatically with ABA too. She

basically had none when we started. We live in a college town and

hire students to work with her 2 hours a day 7 days a week. I am

sure she could have benefited from more hours but we also wanted to

continue in a preschool for the social benefits. Please let me know

if you have any further questions. Good luck. Joanna

-- In Autism_in_Girls , " sissycakes4luv

<sissycakes@m...> " <sissycakes@m...> wrote:

> Hi, My name is Sherri. Just wandered if anyone could relate to my 4

> Yr. old Caitlin. She was diagnosed a year ago at TEACCH center in

> Gastonia, NC as severly autistic. She is in a TEACCH classroom in

> public school system with 6 other boys. She is the only girl. I do

> not think that the TEACCH way is helping her. She is so extremely

> hyper, has no language, motor skills are poor, as well as cognitive

> skills. We have her on Fluoxetine for aggression and anxiety, and

> clonidine for hyperactivity (she has been on clonidine for a few

> months now, and I do not like it). I am so depressed. I want her to

> learn. Does anyone have there child in ABA therapy? I think Caitlin

> would benefit from this. I do know that it is very expensive. If

> anyone

> out there has a child similiar to mine could you please tell me

what

> kind of therapy she is receiving? Any info would be greatly

> appreciated. Thanks in advance!

> Sherri

January 5, 2003

Sissy cakes I to be new here and on spectrum, I to be to know that for some

the one approach that is to be most effective is ABA and so hope you can be

to search this for your child soon, maybe later she to be ready for the

TEACCH method but until she is able to imitate, communicate via whatever

means she to be able to adapt to and is engaged with another ( which ABA can

address) it might be hard for her to have another approach to learn for now.

Sondra

January 5, 2003

Steve you to be right autism to not be to play fair but what is worst is our

government is not to play fair as there is help to us but only the wealthy

or elite can obtain it. Autism is often discriminated against by insurance

companies, MRDD and many other programs have the small printed exclusion to

autism.

Sondra

January 7, 2003

Welcome! We all have a different way of looking at autism and our children are

all different. I have two girls with Mercury... one is Autistic... and the other

is in 6th grade and so-called normal, but she did have eye movement disorder and

processing problem. Both ate cilantro and made improvement, but for other

children it does not work. I must say it does seen strange that something so

simple could make a difference but it did. Kim seems to be normal now and as for

Jen (Autistic) she is talking, but at age 14 years old she has a great deal to

learn! I think you name it... we tried it! Diet, A.I.T., brush therapy and the

list goes on!

So glad you join us!

Beverly Weakley

Mom of Jen and Kim

New to the group

I recently posted " My beautiful Abby " on the site. I am new to this

whole computer thing so please bear with me. This site seems to be

exactly what I am looking for. My husband and I have been attending a

support group in the area however it is not really suiting our needs.

If you dont do the Gluten free/Casein free diet and ABA then you are

kinda left out of the group. When I think of a support group I think

of talking about our childrens progress and backslides and whatever

problem they are having at the time, this site seems to be that way.

I can only hope that I can be support to somebody. Thank you for

having such a wonderful website.

January 7, 2003