Re: Re: Sandy/OT Symptoms of ASD/KiKi

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Sandy,

Thank you for links. Very helpful. She has always been " over

stimulated " ...when things get so busy around her. Before SCD...she would shut

down...and literally force herself into a sleep like state ...closing her eyes

and acting like she was not arousalable. She was always sleeping when we left

the house. So many called her a " good " baby....or a easy baby ....because of

it. If they only knew....at home she cried all the time...nothing would comfort

her. Even would go on frightening nursing strikes.....I knew she was too young

to wean...natural weaning occurs at three years old or so.

Some thought it was just " behavioral " ...now we know better! Makes me so mad

some of the thing " good " intentioned doctors and therapists use to say. Her

delirium seizures where called " night terrors " ....yet she was unarousable then

too...not recognizing who we where....scratching at our face in defense because

she didn't know who we where. Sometime for up to 45 minutes at a time...this

was the first to stop with the scdiet....thank GOD! We are so glad to have our

little KiKi coming back to us. Everyone sleeps better and my scratch face is

healed for the first time in years!

Sincerely, Antoinette

Re: OT Symptoms of ASD/KiKi

Two sites of info on sensory ...Yes in some this certainly gets better... You

are

speaking of a child who is over responding to the environment.. Many kids

are underesponders and need much sensory yours is the opposite...So I

would keep doing slow steady movement to retrain the neurological

system........... Here are two reads for you..

http://www.autism.org/interview/ljk.html<http://www.autism.org/interview/ljk.htm\

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http://www.autism.org/si.html<http://www.autism.org/si.html>

HTH

Sandy

>

> Can those out there help me to make since of some of this. She is

> improving dramaticaly SCD, now two plus months. We are certain we

> are on the right track. But wanted to know if we have a few things

> in common with others.

>

> As you know 23 month old, KiKi was diangosed first with

> Celiac/malabsorption and not so surprisingly the next diagnosis was

> autism...as a reslut to her " starving brain " .

>

> Have others of autistic toddlers/kids had problems with their child

> not wanting to swing in a swing....KiKi gets terrified like she is

> falling. She screams in terror....just hates the movement...even

> starts to shake in fear.

>

> Did it go away with time...if your child did have a problem with

> swinging movement.

>

> She is getting better when we go to the play ground...so much

> better...but doesn't want to swing...or do much other than the

> slide...she now likes the wagon better. But still clings like a

> little monkey to me, much of the time.

>

> As Elaine predicted we are going through a die off again. She says

> in her BTVC book that it happens at around 2 to 3 months. She was

> right. All of us not feeling to hot today....all the signs of die

> off are back....glad to know we are doing somehting right to be

> on " track " ....but feel awful!

>

> Sincerely, Antoinette (2 months SCDiet/thanks to celiac and asd in

> the family)

>

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info<http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/\

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and

http://www.pecanbread.com<http://www.pecanbread.com/>