Re: Neurologist First Time Visit

[Guest guest]

Hi Tina,

Your question about a Neurologist and getting a dx is an important one...

It is most important when it comes to getting services for your child via your

school district. A pediatric neurologist or a developmental pediatrician

can usually help you there.

Unfortunately, a medical neurologist usually cannot offer you any treatment

possibilities. Once you get the dx that you need, make sure that you get the

services from the school. Then, seek out a Board Certified Chiropractic

Neurologist to help you strengthen your child's nervous system.

Almost always, children on the spectrum present with " Neurologial Soft

Signs " that can help pinpoint exact areas in the brain that may be

underfunctioning. For example, the low muscle tone that most kids have is as a

result of

decreased brainstem reticular formation output and is usually more pronounced

on one side of the body.

Similarly, you may see changes in eye movements, head tilting or squinting

that may be compensation for a 'skew deviation' of the eyes...also a possible

underlying brainstem weakness.

The spinning and jumping and constant motion that these kids usually exhibit

is usually secondary to an abnormally firing vestibular system, also a

brainstem function.

And the list goes on and on.

As you can see, these common presentations are not there because someone has

'Autism " . They are there because there is an underlying neurological

dysfunction that MUST be addressed in order to effectuate neurological healing.

If you want more info, I can send you a paper on Autism that I have just

finished that will be more specific about the neurology and biochemistry.

I hope this helps and if you need me to help you find one of my colleagues

(There are only 600 of us on the planet), let me know.

Dr. Mike

A. Gruttadauria, DC, DACAN

Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist

100 Manetto Hill Road, Suite 106

Plainview, NY 11803

516-470-9525 Office

516-470-9524 Fax

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[Guest guest]

I’m going to share how we first got our diagnoses. Understand, we’ve never

had a neurologist in our circle with the spectrum thing.

I’m in Wisconsin, they have a great birth to three and then the school

district takes over. We did there testing, all the questions, pt, ot,

speech, they came up with the diagnoses Autism, but that is far has they go.

At least he qualified for services and that was all that mattered.

We did have him medically “diagnosed” at 3 ¾. They didn’t put a “label” on

him then, felt he was too young but in the spectrum. That again was with a

developmental pediatrician, ot/pt not sure what she all was there, speech

and a psychologist.

Now again this week and in August we went through another series of testing,

2 days. We did an audiologist, 2 psychologists, pt/ot, speech. Lots of

questions, paper work testing before I bring him down that I fill out.

Anyway, they get together has a team and came up with the PDD-NOS.

Then the school district I think it is every 2 years has to retest too.

Tammy

Neurologist First Time Visit

I'm taking my son to a neurologist basically for the first time this coming

Tuesday, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to make this

visit atleast somewhat productively positive for him and myself. He's 5 now

and we've known that he's in the so called spectrum basically since he was 2

even though it took me until he was three to swallow the facts. Don't take

me wrong, I have whole heartedly taken on the natural course of healing as

much as our budget will allow, it includes GFCF and many supplements that

I've actually been through with many of you all for guidance. I just haven't

seen a need or atleast understood the need of the neurologists opinion since

when he was 3 and after pinning him down while he screamed for blood to be

drawn with 3 other nurses, the neurologist canceled all the tests he said

he'd run without my knowledge until I hadn't recieved a phone call for

results and called for myself 3 weeks later and then was

informed. So hopefully you can understand my aprehension. Now we are trying

again with a different one at a different hospital, for the sake of the

neccessity of the school system. The school system I believe I can trust.

They know he'll be in a regular class setting but to truelly help him he

needs a specific diagnosis, which we don't yet have. There is where I'm

stumped. Any suggestions are welcome, specifically ones that include

questions and requests I should need to have right away. My anxiety for this

apt. is quite overwhelming although I'm sure unneccessary. Thank You, Tina

and Lyric

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[Guest guest]

Here in AZ we need a diagnosis to receive services from the school and the

state. We can get the diagnosis from a behavioral pediatrician or a

psychologist. We did go to a neurologist for a brain scan but everything was

normal there.

Neurologist First Time Visit

I'm taking my son to a neurologist basically for the first time this coming

Tuesday, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to make this

visit atleast somewhat productively positive for him and myself. He's 5 now and

we've known that he's in the so called spectrum basically since he was 2 even

though it took me until he was three to swallow the facts. Don't take me wrong,

I have whole heartedly taken on the natural course of healing as much as our

budget will allow, it includes GFCF and many supplements that I've actually been

through with many of you all for guidance. I just haven't seen a need or atleast

understood the need of the neurologists opinion since when he was 3 and after

pinning him down while he screamed for blood to be drawn with 3 other nurses,

the neurologist canceled all the tests he said he'd run without my knowledge

until I hadn't recieved a phone call for results and called for myself 3 weeks

later and then was

informed. So hopefully you can understand my aprehension. Now we are trying

again with a different one at a different hospital, for the sake of the

neccessity of the school system. The school system I believe I can trust. They

know he'll be in a regular class setting but to truelly help him he needs a

specific diagnosis, which we don't yet have. There is where I'm stumped. Any

suggestions are welcome, specifically ones that include questions and requests I

should need to have right away. My anxiety for this apt. is quite overwhelming

although I'm sure unneccessary. Thank You, Tina and Lyric

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[Guest guest]

We just went for the first time ourselves (our son is 3 1/2 and is

probably PDD but has shown considerable progress and is doing very

well, especially of late).

The key is to find a neurologist who's attitude and thought

processes align with yours. In other words, its not desired to do

any testing just for the sake of testing, especially when you are

dealing with hypersensitive kids. The best thing is to bring your

child for the initial interview, and just share all of your

frustrations and victories with them. The hope is in that 30-60

minute consultation time he/she can preliminarily assess if there is

any further investigatory work that might be recommended.

We feel strongly we are doing the right thing in emphasizing therapy

and schooling, so its not like we were going to change anything

dramatically. However, I am aware that in some cases there are

indications of a specific issue which may be causing some of the

problems (ie diet, metabolic problems,...), hence I think it

definitely is worthwhile to have such a consultation. If you end up

doing nothing after that, no harm.

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> I'm taking my son to a neurologist basically for the first time

this coming Tuesday, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions

on how to make this visit atleast somewhat productively positive for

him and myself. He's 5 now and we've known that he's in the so

called spectrum basically since he was 2 even though it took me

until he was three to swallow the facts. Don't take me wrong, I have

whole heartedly taken on the natural course of healing as much as

our budget will allow, it includes GFCF and many supplements that

I've actually been through with many of you all for guidance. I just

haven't seen a need or atleast understood the need of the

neurologists opinion since when he was 3 and after pinning him down

while he screamed for blood to be drawn with 3 other nurses, the

neurologist canceled all the tests he said he'd run without my

knowledge until I hadn't recieved a phone call for results and

called for myself 3 weeks later and then was

> informed. So hopefully you can understand my aprehension. Now we

are trying again with a different one at a different hospital, for

the sake of the neccessity of the school system. The school system I

believe I can trust. They know he'll be in a regular class setting

but to truelly help him he needs a specific diagnosis, which we

don't yet have. There is where I'm stumped. Any suggestions are

welcome, specifically ones that include questions and requests I

should need to have right away. My anxiety for this apt. is quite

overwhelming although I'm sure unneccessary. Thank You, Tina and

Lyric

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