Fw: Your child can get better.

[Guest guest]

Kristie,

I read your post on the list and your question about what to expect when going

to Dr. Goldberg. I am probably not answering that question. I will leave that

to other list members. But I will give you information to help you. Going to

Dr. G is the best thing you can do for your child. You are extremely fortunate

to be getting there when your son is only three. That way when your son's body

becomes more healthy, you won't have as much to teach him to catch up to his

peers. I am forwarding articles I send to parents to start teaching them about

the medical stuff. Some are my son's story, others are written by Dr. G and

Hopkins. If there are any other list members who need help email me

privately and I will forward what I sent Kristie. I would love to help any way I

can.

Marcia

805 497-8202

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I hope this email will help you understand better how to help your child

both medically and educationally. What most medical doctors are just

starting to accept is that Autism, ADD, ADHD are the result of an immune

systems that aren't working properly. There is even a new name for these

conditions (Neuro-Immune Dysfunction Syndromes)

I should probably start by telling you about the website. It is

http://www.nids.net On there is a section titled " For families " That has a

link to Dr. Goldberg's website titled " Neuroimmune doctor " There is a lot

of good information there.

In this email are two articles I wrote two articles that tell my son,

's recovery from Autism. I wrote " One Cure Doesn't Fit All "

when he was almost seven. I also attached a more recent article not yet

published called, " What Our Pediatrician Never Told Us. " In both articles I

called him to protect his privacy.

is now seventeen and recovered. When my son entered kindergarten at

almost six years old, he was in the third percentile for speech. By that

time we had been seeing Dr. Goldberg for about a year. By the third grade,

my son tested in the 85th percentile for speech and by fifth grade no longer

received any assistance at all at school. Dr. Goldberg uses only hard

science and medical tests to treat our children.

On my son's current report card, he earned all " A's " and one " B. "

is in all the AP classes with no assistance. He just scored in the 92nd

percentile in the nation on his SAT's for Math. In critical

reading he was in the 87th percentile. Not too shabby for a kid who was in the

third percentile for speech when he

entered kindergarten. His teachers and friends do not know he was ever diagnosed

with Autism. But more

importantly, he is well liked and doing all the things the doctors said would

never be possible. None of this would

have been possible without Dr. G. or the educational component.

Helping recover is the hardest thing I have ever done. It took so much

strength to be more stubborn than he was. I

f I had known in the beginning, he would get better as a result of the hard

work, I could have continued.

But it was extremely difficult to keep working at this not knowing if this

would ever help him be " normal " was extremely difficult. Especially since I

was told by the " experts " that would probably end up in an institution.

Most of what I did to help was so I would have no guilt later. I never

really believed he could recover from Autism. I wanted to be able to tell

myself I did everything possible to help him.

My son always had language, but it definitely wasn't conversational speech.

The hardest thing I ever did was to keep speaking to a child who showed no

response one way or another that he understood me or cared about what I

said. It was only later after he was better that I realized he did

understand the things I talked to him about. Think about it. How long does it

take a normal kid to learn

language? Three years to be proficient. If you could wave a magic wand

and make his body normal, it would still take time to catch him up. Keep

talking to your kids For our kids, English is a foreign language that you

have to teach them.

One piece of advice Maurice gave me on the

phone that was an enormous help was to use what they like. loves the

computer and we used that. He started using it at two. We looked upon the

computer as another therapist.

Every program he did had some educational component even though they were

fun.

He was using the computer even before we knew there was a problem. I always let

him get ahead academically, because then he had one area where he shined. As he

got older, the other kids realized he was great at Math and History and would

ask him for help with stuff at school.

We also used the computer as a reward. Most of our kids love the computer.

He would do it for hours. They love that predictability thing. hated

anything physical, so to improve his motor planning and muscle tone we would

set up obstacle courses, where the last thing would be an Edmark, son

or Learning Company computer game. That made him want to do it. He also

liked it when we timed him with a stop watch so he could try to beat his

last time.

's progress was ten steps forward, and three steps back. It was long

and slow. It is not a direct climb to improvement. We all concentrated so much

on what he needed to learn

that sometimes we didn't realize all that he had learned.

At the beginning of each school year I would make a list for his teachers

about what he still needed to learn. Sometimes I didn't realize how far

he had come until I started deleting things from the list. We tend to

notice what is still left to learn, not what we had accomplished. So

remember to pat yourself on the back.

Helping our kids get better is kind of like a roller coaster. Sometimes

you're at the top feeling good about what is happening and sometimes you hit

bottom. Autistic children also create a lot of tension in the home. I know

my husband and I can get through anything after we survived 's recovery.

I have so many things to help that I will start you slowly. Yell uncle if I

send too much

Marcia

805 497-8202