SCD RECOVERY WITHOUT OTHER INTERVENTIONS

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SCD attracts the most dedicated parents. Since SCD is not the most

famous ASD treatment,the parents have already implemented ABA or

other well known treatments before starting SCD. Therefore,we have

few kids who are doing only SCD.

That is the reason that we have so few kids who are recovering with

only SCD. However,we do have " SCD only " recovery stories.

I remember who did SCD only(with just speech therapy few

times a week).

Her story is on our old Elaineschildren Lyris List.

http://lyris.dundee.net/read/messages?id=267776#267776

Hi everyone!

has made another jolt of progress this month.

The tantrums at school have stopped completely. Her teacher says

that she is academically higher than most of her classmates, and is

one of the few who can lead " calendar " time without hand-over-hand

assistance. This involves using a pointer and counting, telling days

of the week, and patterning. She is going to be " Old Mother

Hubbard's Dog " in the Christmas Concert (don't ask!!!), and is

putting her heart into the barking part!

At home -- FINALLY! BE JOYFUL MY MOTHER'S HEART! -- she is playing

with . Without me telling her to. Sometimes when they are

listening to music I go in to check on them (from my permanent

habitat -- the kitchen!) and they are holding hands and dancing to

the music. Or is pushing on the " ride on " bus, or they

are both on it, riding and giggling. Today they were playing a chase

game over my bed, and went to get the stool (as she has seen

me do) for from the bathroom so could climb up on the

bed after her (at almost 2 is a shortie and can't clamber up

onto Mommy's high bed).

Before SCD I would have to call 's name over and over to get

her to turn my way, and would often have to get right in front of

her and say her name just to get her to look at me. This morning she

was playing with her back to me and when I came into the room I

whispered, " pssst, " and she turned around, said, " Hi Mommy! " and

came to hug me.

And ... we have beginning conversations! At last! For example, when

she is in the bath, she'll say, " I want a towel. " I'll say, " which

one? " and she'll say, " I want the green! " Or, she'll take her shoes

off and I'll say, " where do they go? " and she'll say, " by the door! "

Yesterday we went to the library. There's a park outside, and we

were playing, and she struck up a conversation with a man who was

there with his little boy! I don't know exactly what they were

saying, but I saw 3 or 4 interchanges (I was with ). Then we

went inside, and she picked out a video. When we got home, she

said, " Mommy ... " and waited till I turned around, and then

said, " Can I have video? Please? "

So for the newbie moms (and dads!) of picky eaters, take heart!

This is my child whom I call Princess Picky. We have never been able

to do the intro diet, and Elaine says at this point we don't need

to. has had fruit (bananas and pears) from day 1, nut muffins

with honey from about 2 months, and yogurt from 3 1/2 months.

Admittedly her autism was mild to begin with, but now she seems more

and more like a regular 4 year old with a language delay. I'm quite

sure (on good days, anyway! ) that by the time she's 6, she'll be

caught up with her peers and will be functioning normally in a grade

1 class.

Oh yeah and, we have done NO therapy except language therapy, so her

gains in behaviour are not from ABA, just from feeding her brain and

making her body comfortable.

It's not my Thanksgiving (had that, Oct. 13), but I am sooooo

thankful for SCD!

Sue (from Pickering)

Mom to , 4, formerly? ASD, SCD 8 months