Re: Re:P.S. ABA/Marcia/ we only eliminated the big triggers

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Marcia,

 

Thank you for staying in this list. You always have a wealth of information to

share with us. My son has been a patient of Dr G since May and we have seen some

improvements. He may be at the point of benefiting from ABA and I would like to

give it a try.

 

Any recommendations of where to go for ABA?

 

Thanks

 

Karla

From: and Marcia Hinds <hindssite@...>

Subject: Re:P.S. we only eliminated the big triggers

hindssite@...,

Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 5:26 AM

 

,

I feel awful about what you and Josh are going through. I know there are

parents like you who work tirelessly to help their kids, but their medical

issues are extremely difficult to treat. When I read stories like yours, I

feel so guilty that mine is okay and yours is not. It is obvious, you would

do anything for your child, and it is just chance that mine has an immune

system that is working better with treatment. I think it is people like you

that make me stay on this list when I just want to be out of the autism

world. We must find the answers to make them all better.

Have you tried the dreaded ABA? I know Dr G hates ABA. Besides Dr. G, ABA

is the thing that helped the most. We used ABA techniques we used to

help learn what he missed. If you can't get a kid to do anything or

attend, you can't teach them anything. As soon as listened and

focused, we moved to a more natural way of learning where we used what he

loved to motivate him.

Dr G and I argue about ABA constantly. Although I disagree with Dr Goldberg

about using ABA. I do agree with what he says about that there are some

people out there doing ABA just to make money. They feed on our fear and

desire to do anything to help our children. In addition, some of them

charge a fortune and yet use untrained people to work with our kids. And

worse are those who are doing ABA incorrectly. Many of them even have big

titles and degrees behind their names.

You may have already tried ABA, but if not be careful if you decide to go

down this path. I didn't realize it at the time, but we were fortunate that

there was no one to do ABA in Minnesota. We brought someone in to teach us

and we did it ourselves. Less expensive and better for our kids because we

were trained in the techniques so we could use them throughout the day to

help our child.

I do know some kids are so affected, nothing works well and this saddens me.

Some kids have immune systems that are just not working. But never give up

hope because none of us know when something new will be discovered that

will help these kids who are more difficult cases. Please call if I can

help in any way.

Marcia