Helping your son

[Guest guest]

Sheryl,

My son, 's recovery resulted from a doctor who believes autism is a

treatable disease and not a developmental or a psychiatric disorder. Dr.

Goldberg is right when he says autism is a medical condition where those

affected have immune systems that are not working properly. No parent

should accept that their child cannot be helped. is living proof that

kids can get better.

was diagnosed when he was four years old. A psychiatrist who was the

leading authority on autism said my child would never be okay. According to

this expert, was going to end up in an institution or group home. Now

at 22, the only institution attends is Santa Clara University where he

studies mechanical engineering on a merit scholarship. excels

academically and is in the Engineering Honor Society (top 10% GPA). He's a

member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and was president of the Jewish Student

Association. But more importantly, is a typical college student who

drinks an occasional beer, goes on dates, stays out too late with friends

and then sleeps through eight o'clock classes. I couldn't be more proud!

Unbelievable as it seems, this is the same child who wanted to spend all

day, every day, plugging in a portable radio into each outlet in the house.

Back then, I wasn't sure if I had the strength to be more stubborn than my

son. There were mornings I didn't want to get out of bed to face another

day filled with autism. The worst times were when I didn't have a direction

or a plan. I was hanging onto my sanity by my fingernails. But, at the end

of the day, I was faced with a choice: let drift off forever into his

own world, or drag him kicking and screaming into ours.

After we helped medically, it was possible for him to learn.

Behavioral and educational interventions were used in conjunction with the

medical treatment to catch up on everything he missed. Initially, we

used Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for his rehabilitation and when he was

ready we moved towards more natural ways of teaching. It took years to

correct 's deficits in speech and social skills. It was almost like

taking a stroke victim and bringing them back. Our story is not about

coping with autism, but rather fighting back and not accepting the

misconceptions associated with this diagnosis. This process is definitely

not for sissies or parents looking for that magic cure.

Please email me privately if you want me to forward you info on the medical

and how to get in touch with Dr. Goldberg, Dr. , or the Northern New

York Autism Clinic.

Best,

Marcia Hinds

[Guest guest]

Dear Marsha,

I need your opinion on few things, My son unni is 6 years old we see Dr G from

last year now he is on valtrex,celexa,nizoral,tenex and he is receving ABA. He

is in special class now attending school twice a week and rest of the days he is

going for ABA. Recenly he got lots of tantrums at therapy as well as school and

at ABA he had lot of tantrum when he stated and it was coming down but from last

month he is hurting others himself and huge problem for simply going from one

room to another. so still not be able to make sit somewhere to learn anything.

Dr g is doing bloodwork and his allergy levels are up it was 9% few months back

and now it's 7% and he want that under 1%. We are from India and we eat rice a

lot so unni eat rice based food for breakfast which was ok acco to D rG if it's

processed and when we spoke last time he said that rice i mean too much of it

may be the problem.

When you were doing allergy tests for ryan is that not this high ? Now i feel

like may because of his allrgy cells we dont see any huge gains from any of his

medications and sometimes we see bad stuffs like he is potty trained from 4 and

half years and now some days he pee in his bed which is scary to me. When we

were doing dan that person told we should make him eat our traditional food so

we did with lots of efforts and now he loves our food and now i have to stop

that and try something new. I really want to believe that nids will work for us

and it's so hard to see that he is not gaining anything whatever we try.

Now i am pregnant and spoke to Dr G and he told me to do same diet like unni.

Anyway I got a dvd from baby einstein numbers nursery and he is not really happy

to see it still watch for sometime.I feel he still not able to sit and do

things. sometimes hyper and sometimes everything has to be his own way.So i

should be able to reduce his allergy cells first then he should be able to

learn. what do you think?

Thanks,

Anitha

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:24:39 -0800

Subject: Helping your son

Sheryl,

My son, 's recovery resulted from a doctor who believes autism is a

treatable disease and not a developmental or a psychiatric disorder. Dr.

Goldberg is right when he says autism is a medical condition where those

affected have immune systems that are not working properly. No parent

should accept that their child cannot be helped. is living proof that

kids can get better.

was diagnosed when he was four years old. A psychiatrist who was the

leading authority on autism said my child would never be okay. According to

this expert, was going to end up in an institution or group home. Now

at 22, the only institution attends is Santa Clara University where he

studies mechanical engineering on a merit scholarship. excels

academically and is in the Engineering Honor Society (top 10% GPA). He's a

member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and was president of the Jewish Student

Association. But more importantly, is a typical college student who

drinks an occasional beer, goes on dates, stays out too late with friends

and then sleeps through eight o'clock classes. I couldn't be more proud!

Unbelievable as it seems, this is the same child who wanted to spend all

day, every day, plugging in a portable radio into each outlet in the house.

Back then, I wasn't sure if I had the strength to be more stubborn than my

son. There were mornings I didn't want to get out of bed to face another

day filled with autism. The worst times were when I didn't have a direction

or a plan. I was hanging onto my sanity by my fingernails. But, at the end

of the day, I was faced with a choice: let drift off forever into his

own world, or drag him kicking and screaming into ours.

After we helped medically, it was possible for him to learn.

Behavioral and educational interventions were used in conjunction with the

medical treatment to catch up on everything he missed. Initially, we

used Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for his rehabilitation and when he was

ready we moved towards more natural ways of teaching. It took years to

correct 's deficits in speech and social skills. It was almost like

taking a stroke victim and bringing them back. Our story is not about

coping with autism, but rather fighting back and not accepting the

misconceptions associated with this diagnosis. This process is definitely

not for sissies or parents looking for that magic cure.

Please email me privately if you want me to forward you info on the medical

and how to get in touch with Dr. Goldberg, Dr. , or the Northern New

York Autism Clinic.

Best,

Marcia Hinds