Proefa study at autism conference/additional study?/case study

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Hi there,

Thank you for clarifying a lot of the details of

the study. It actually listed CHERAB foundation that

conducted the study. I will write notes from the

powerpoint handout we got. I am not sure if this is

new info or old just so everyone is aware of that. I

think they have recently done another study. The

information was presented by Louise-, CCC/SP/L

from Tuscon AZ (I think U of A. We didn't get all the

notes from the study on the handout.) There were 22

subjects with Autism or Aspgers, 3-10 years old.. 18

completed study (is this a different study?) All

scores where found to increase from pre-test to

post-test. It was found to be highly unlikely moving

by chance. They used 1 ProEFA a day and said that

more was not generally better. A case study she

presented was " " (I'll give you a brief

rundown).

-dx ASD at 17 months of age by ped. neurologist

-inital speech/lang eval at 17 months displayed

significant speech delay with disorder

-Nic. did not come when called nor did he localize to

his name when called. He didn't follow simple

requests (come here). He did not imitate sounds or

words. Nic was nonverbal generally utilizing

" means-end " to obtain desired items. Obsessed with

lights, limited eye contact,

Supplemented with EFAs (also started diet)

-Nic began taking 115 mgs of DHA at 18 months of age

-Started imitating a few words 9 days into

supplementation

-Had nine functional words by 25 days into

supplementation

-Looking for mother when she left room and would say

" mama "

-23 months of age his language comphension and

expression were nearing average range although did not

generalize across enviornments

-26 months of age he had acquired 75% of the expected

developmental language skills for his age

-34 months of age his language skills were noted to be

generally age appropriate with generalization across

settings

-Today he is highly social and verbal child attending

preschool with his peers.

These notes are almost word for word from her notes.

I have a couple parent statements from Kim and

Schlabach that the SLP included. One said the

study was done in Sept 2002... so I am not sure if

this is or isn't the same study was speaking

about. I don't have written down much more info.

Dr. Gordon Bell, University of Sterling, Scotland

conducted research measuring lipids in red blood cells

of 7 children with ASD and 7 children in the control

group. The red blood cells of the ASD children

contained less omega 3s than the control group. He is

currently conducting a much larger study.

This info probably didn't clarify anything for

anybody.. sorry - that's all I know. Take care and

God Bless,