OT - special ed and chelation --- long post!

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I just came from a rather depressing class tonight. There was a

parent of a severely autistic child discussing her experience with

special ed. When she was discussing his initial diagnosis at 2, I

asked if she saw any change after he was vaccinated. She said her

husband did, but she didn't and commented that he never really had

any receptive language skills. My professor visibly grimaced at my

question and then made a forceful speech about how recent studies

have shown there is NO link between vaccinations and autism and then

launched into a speech about the importance of vaccinations. She

said that initially people thought mercury in the vaccinations was

the problem but now that mercury is out of vaccinations, there has

not been any change in the incidence of autism. Case closed!

Yet one of my fellow students discussed how one of the parents

she works with is doing chelation " not the IV kind " . She (my fellow

student) said the child initally got better, than regressed and now

she's not sure what to think of it. But the child tested full of

metals.

This school I'm atttending is one of the topranked schools in the

country for Special ed as well as other degrees. Yet I repeatedly

hear the vaccination/autism connection shot down. I really want to

combine my spec ed training with my knowledge of chelation therapy

to help the kids I work with. Alot of parents in the school system

*are* exploring chelation and supplements to heal their kids. I

don't get the refusal of the university profs to be open to the

connection.