Our children are sick, but sick kids can get better.

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It really doesn't matter what your child's diagnosis is because they all get

better the same way. You take them to Dr. G who treats the medical problems

that are causing the issues. The next step is to start catching them up on what

they missed when they were ill. I hope this email will help you understand

better how to help your child both medically,educationally, and behaviorally.

What most medical doctors are just

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

systems that aren't working properly. Dr. Goldberg even coined a new name for

these conditions (Neuro-Immune Dysfunction Syndromes)

covers Autism, ADHD,PDD or any other problem that is a result of the immune

system being either overactive or underactive. Dr. G differs from other doctors

in that he doesn't believe this is a disorder or psychological problem, but

rather a physical medical problem and treats it as such. What these kids have

is not a disorder. Disorders can not get better and do not respond to medical

treatment.

My own son was diagnosed with Autism. I was told by the " experts " that

would probably end up in an institution.

He has been seeing Dr. G since he was five. He is no longer autistic. He

currently is in high school, is taking four Advanced Placement (college

level) classes. None of his teachers or friends even knows he was ever

diagnosed with Autism. On my son's last report card, he earned all " A's. " But

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

would never be possible. We are now doing college applications for schools like

Stanford. I keep telling him no one gets into Stanford, but now I think he is

just curious if they might take him.

At six years old, 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.

I am forwarding articles I send to parents to start teaching them about the

medical, behavioral and educational issues. Some are my son's story, others are

from Dr. G and Hopkins. In this email are two articles I wrote two

articles that tell the story of my son,

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

I know I can't forward attachments to the list, but anyone else who wants these

articles should email me privately.

Recovery requires a team approach that includes the medical, behavioral and

educational interventions. Although extremely difficult, recovery is possible.

Having said that, when my son was little I never really believed he could

recover. Most of what I did to help was so I would not have guilt later. I

wanted to be able to tell myself I did everything possible to help him. This is

a difficult journey and only a parent possesses the stamina, fortitude, and

tenacity to keep doing what needs to be done to help their child.

Marcia

805 497-8202

P.S. I should probably tell 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.

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

strength to be more stubborn than he was. If 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.

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. We looked upon the computer as another therapist.

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

Most of our kids love the computer. would do it for hours. They love that

predictability thing.

We also used the computer as a reward. 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. 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. It was long

and slow. 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.