talkin, singing, methods and other

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MHeavensent1@... wrote:

Dear parent,

I hope I'm addressing this so it gets to right person.

To the mother who's child is now wanting to walk in

walker

instead of lying around, you said you hope he would

someday talk.

That would be me.

She also wrote:

one way to get their attention on the concept and to

encourage and motivate her, is when they make

a sound, you wait till they're finished & then you

copy it. And smile at them like your really enjoying

this conversation. I'd put Barouk music on. Are you

familiar with the concept of the " cross crawloff,

but the children I work with progress very quickly.

Our son was born blind, deaf and floppy. We went to

the Institutes of Human Potential in PA and learned

from the originator of CRoss Crawl how to pattern how

son. We flashed lights in his eyes and blew air horns.

We have done lots and lots of cranial sacral therpy.

If you do massage I encourage you to learn CST. MY son

can hear and see and can almost walk now. I would like

to do auditory integration therapy. I haven't had the

support I need on that route.

We taught him the only word he can say which is MAMA

by sticking his hand in my mouth and letting him feel

my mouth and tongue move while I talked. He loves me

to repeat back his intonations and sounds. Dr. Attwood

author of " Aspberger's syndrome " spoke at an Autism

Symposium a while back in MO and said that singing is

the first way that a baby communications so he

recommends that mothers sing to their children and

that children with Autism receive music therapy.

We have copied his sounds and played with him trying

to teach him verbal communication. THe best luck we

have had is using Dr. Carbonnes method of ABA

and Verbal communication. He is awesome. If you

haven't gone to that then I highly reccommend it. I

think he is at the www.jericoschool.com address if I

am not mistaken.

I still felt like there was a missing key in my son's

progress that would unlock the door to his brain. So I

began studying the DAN approach. We are seeing a lot

of progress on this diet. I hope it is the key. I do

not believe that my son is severly retarded as the

school is about to claim today at our IEP. They want

to send him to the state school. I am only going along

with it because I am tired of the fight. And we can

get better funding this way to continue the ABA

program he does. At least I have the support of the

state right now via Project Access our state's Autism

Arm. I believe my son is stuck somewhere in there. I

will find him!

BTW This list is wonderful I appreciate the support of

the group and the patience you have for us newcommers.

Thank you for taking time to help.

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