Therapies That Work Considered Quackery

[Guest guest]

One of the hard to understand things about the whole autism

experience, so to speak, is that we have all these providers of

therapy and medicine (psychoactive drugs, etc.) who offer

conventional help or medicine of one kind or another that do not work

for a particular kid and may do harm, and then the things that DO

work--GFCF diet, Berard AIT (in our case at least), DAN! protocol--

are not only NOT covered by insurance but often parents are actively

discouraged from pursuing them. (Excuse the long sentence but I

think you all know what I mean.) We had obstacles put in our way by

my grandson's preschool; they would not let us bring in any outside

food that was GFCF. The OTs and the SLPs said AIT wasn't in their

realm of expertise and besides it didn't work and might harm the

child...instead it was one of the most helpful and important things

we've ever done. The School Districts won't provide AIT although it

is covered by some states as auditory training under IDEA. And of

course there is no respite care here. Is everybody running only on a

profit motive, preventing us from recovering our children, or does it

only seem that way?

It seems to me that these " sins of omission " are almost as bad as the

actual poisoning that took place in the first place.

Peace,

Kathy E.