Re: ATEC scores for kids on SCD?

[Guest guest]

" I should note that my daughter's ATEC was right around 58-60

pre-diet, and after 10 days on the SCD (including a gluten infraction

in the middle of it which caused us to go back to the intro diet this

past weekend), her score is in the mid-30s or thereabouts today "

Wow JC. That's amazing!

I did track my son's ATEC from Age 2.8 (before we started anything).

The last time I did his was over 2 years ago.

His score went from 90 to 4. I loved watching the numbers drop.

For anyone who wants to fill out an ATEC, go to

http://www.autism.com/atec/

Jody

mom to -5.1 and -7.5

SCD 1 year

[Guest guest]

Hi J.C.

Pre SCD ATEC score: 62

ATEC score today (10 1/2 months): 17

She's been on a roll lately, so I'm feeling very positive, so that

may have skewed things a bit. I usually get her dad to do it

separately from me and then we average it, but he's sleeping!

Sue (From Pickering)

Mom to , 4, formerly? ASD, SCD 10 1/2 months

[Guest guest]

> If anyone who's been on the diet for a long time has the " before

and after " scores and would be willing to post them, I think it would

> really encourage those of us who are just starting out -- I know it

> would help me!

Pre-any-diet, nov. 2000: 63

GFCF, dec 2000-jan 2003: 53

SCD-jan 2003-now: 49

most gains in conversation skills and playskills

Marjan

mom to Nick, 7, scd since jan 18, 2003

Netherlands

[Guest guest]

>> " I should note that my daughter's ATEC was right around 58-60

>> pre-diet, and after 10 days on the SCD (including a gluten

infraction

>> in the middle of it which caused us to go back to the intro diet

this

>> past weekend), her score is in the mid-30s or thereabouts today "

>

>

> Wow JC. That's amazing!

>

> Jody

> mom to -5.1 and -7.5

> SCD 1 year

I should be honest here, Jody, and say that it wasn't entirely SCD.

Her ATEC dropped like a rock when we implemented GFCF (31 is her

low, with 22 points of that being her lack of speech). But then she

started reacting to other starches, such as rice, and the ATEC

started creeping back up. When we first implemented SCD about two

weeks ago (the first day or so, right before die-off started), the

score was back down to around 31 -- but then we had die-off and then

a gluten infraction and then a bad reaction to three dates (illegal

ones) she ate by mistake, so we've been hovering in the mid-to-high

30s this week (do I sound obsessive about tracking this? ;-) ). I'm

truly hoping to keep her diet entirely legal now, so we can see true

results -- and I really, really believe in this diet. It just makes

sense to me.

J.C.

[Guest guest]

J.C.

It's still amazing considering all the people in the world who say

that " diet makes no difference " .

When you began to remove foods she couldn't handle she began to get

better. When she began eating things she couldn't handle (the

starches), she got worse. You removed them and she got better again.

There's no better proof that diet CAN make a difference.

Jody

mom to -5.1 and -7.5

SCD 1 year