ot: Re: improving attention

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My daughter had no anticipation or referencing skills after 3+ years

of ABA. RDI is building pre-speech skills that we missed, and her

receptive language has jumped as she is gazing at faces and looking

to others for information, learning to shift her attention from

speaker to speaker. I think she was inattentive because she didn't

have this pre-speech foundation prior to recovering her words with

biomedical.

Barbara Rogoff, in her book, " Apprenticeship in Thinking " talks

about the rich communication between toddler and parent " before

words are a currency of communication " , and RDI gives families a

chance to go back and " re-do " that valuable pre-speech

communication. My child began to learn the non-verbal body language

that comes with words when others talk and interact, and, while we

still have a long way to go, we have seen leaps in her attention

skills.

We entered the world of homeopathy just before we began RDI, and

homeopathy has calmed our daughter, reduced fears, took her brain

out of constant " fight or flight " while RDI gave us the plan of

action to work on relationships. They work really well together, I

think.

Yes, we're still GFCF and do quite a bit of biomedical, too.

Hope this helps,

Penny

> > >

> > > Does anyone have suggestions on improving attention in a very

> > > high-functioning kiddo? My son (6 y.o, in kinder) has come so

far

> > in

> > > the past two years. Now he presents like a child with bad ADD.

He

> > > isn't at all hyper, but he is very inattentive during low-

interest

> > > activities at school. The last time we had a neuropsych eval,

he

> > was

> > > given an ADHD dx along with his PDD-NOS dx. Attention is the

one

> > thing

> > > that hasn't responded much to anything we've tried: ABA, lots

of

> > > supps, chelation (6 months with td-dmsa), mB12 shots, etc.

> > >

> > > I just upped his omega-3 dose. I'm thinking of asking his Dan

doc

> > if

> > > we can increase his B12 shots to every other night.

Suggestions

> > would

> > > be very welcome. His low attention is really hurting his

ability to

> > > learn at school.

> > >

> > > Thank you very much for any suggestions,

> > >

> > >

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