Flapping

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Hello--

Please tell me what you mean by "flapping." Also, you give a pair of frequencies that overlap, though both applied at the same point, and going in opposite directions. What does that mean?

Thanks,

Gene

Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:45:03 -0000 From: "martydeboer" <mdeboer@...>Subject: Re: PDD trainingI am working with a 6 yr old boy with a very similar profile. He does best when I primarily train at T4: rewarding 6-9, inhibiting 2-7 & high beta. At one point he was reported to be "flapping" a lot, so I lowered the Hz rewarded to 5-8 and 4-7. However, the flapping continued, and even increased. So I asked to observe him at school and found that the flapping was done not while over aroused, but rather when he seemed under aroused (e.g. waiting during cirle time). With this information, I increased the HZ to 6-9 and the "flapping" problem has diminished greatly. BTW T4 is the site recommended for children with autism by Betty Jarusiewicz in her SNR article.-Marty DeBoer

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My son has just recently started hand flapping (He is 2 & 1/2). He gets

really excited, straightens his legs, flaps his hands and squeals then

he is excited (like playing a computer game or leapster). I can

say " hands down " and he will get control for a second then do it

again. Does he have too much excitation of some neurotransmitters?

Is there something he can take to control it? I asked my biomed dr

but he didn't really have an answer.

Does this go away and if so- how??

thanks

amanda

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> My son has just recently started hand flapping (He is 2 & 1/2). He gets

> really excited, straightens his legs, flaps his hands and squeals then

> he is excited (like playing a computer game or leapster). I can

> say " hands down " and he will get control for a second then do it

> again. Does he have too much excitation of some neurotransmitters?

> Is there something he can take to control it?

For my son, this was eliminated with B vitamins, anti-virals, and EFAs.

Dana