Re: Autism & apraxia...success story !!!

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Hi ,

Happy to have an excuse to post about my wee boy !

My son had some basic speech at 18 months and was babbling

beautifully - lovely and melodic and all the right " b.bb.b.b.'s " and

" m..mmm..m's " etc. Then he stopped doing that and started making

either screaming or gutteral noises. By two he was just screaming and

it wasn't until he was nearly four that he started to make one sound

noises as simple as he could get to the word he was after ( di for

drink , " muh " for more ). He was dignosed with autism at 2 1/2 and got

his verbal dispraxia diagnosis just six months ago - he is five.

He started with the one word sounds after I took him off gluten and

casein ...and happily at this time (4) he also started sleeping

through the night and toilet trainned. I attribute this to the diet

which was hard to get right but so worth it. we had slight

improvements with EFA's and a little jump on TMG when he started to

manage two to three sounds. He is just being treated for

yeast/candida and that created another jump in speech so that

although his pronunciation is not perfect he is sayng things

like " car-too ney-work " when he wants cartoon network on, and " dude -

where my car " which he came out with three weeks ago after steady

impressive improvement over the last two months on nystatin and a pro-

biotic and is without doubt the first almost perfect thing he has

ever said and is a sentence to boot !!!

I have had to keep my impatience under control and try and deal with

his dietary treatment before concentrating more specifically on his

language skills but , now his yeast treatment is settling down, I can

get his EFA's properly in place and see if the correct amount of a

specific formulation will move him on a little more.

So ..my son, severely autistic and non verbal at three, a couple of

promising signs ( and sounds !) at about four and a half and now

really good communication for him and diminishing autistic symptoms

at five nearly six !!!!!

He is SO keen to talk and bits of his language are still hard to

understand but compared to how he was....!!

He is also calm and happy and very affectionate and although it took

me over a year to get his diet right ( and I am still learning ) it

has been the best thing I have ever done and I thank god that I

didn't give up in the first year when it seemed to be making

virtually no difference .

Our kids are all different and the autism makes everything so much

harder but nothing is ever fixed. Charlie speech therapist and ASD

school head teacher is a lady with unbelieveable knowledge of both

Autism and speech developemnt and she very gently told me last year

that she had never in her twenty years seen a child with as severe a

delay as Charlie ( and with as severe autism) develop any meaningful

speech. She was delighted to be proved so wrong and has aranged for

me to speak at the ASD nursery about gfcf and EFA's for our special

kids.

Our children can always surprise us . Keep going. I remember dreaming

that Charlie could talk and waking up crying that I could remembrer

his sweet voice but would never hear it again. Now he says " mummy big

hug " and " lu-ver " and it seems to me that sometimes the miracle

happens.

I hope this helps you belive it is never to late for our kids . I

wish you every good luck.

Regards

Deborah

> , my son sounds like he's in the same boat as yours. He is 5

autistic, and apraxic. Currently makes alot of sounds but no speech

yet. Actually had speech until about 15 months of age then regressed.

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> I'm looking for the same thing you are. Perhaps someone will share

their positive story with us.

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> pat