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Naturopathy And Prayer Help Julia
Where do I begin with my autism testimonial?Our youngest child and only daughter, Julia, is autistic. She is currently 8 years old, and our journey with her thus far has been at times extremely challenging, yet equally awe-inspiring as we have witnessed God’s hand in our lives and hers.
Julia was developmentally delayed from birth, and that was her diagnosis up until age 7. She was seen by a prominent neuro-psychologist who gave her the diagnosis of autism. He also confirmed ADD, OCD, and brain damage from heavy metals.
Julia was non-verbal until the age of 5, uttering only the sound “ba.” She has always been extremely social and craving physical contact, so that many who worked with her were hesitant to say she was autistic. However, she has also been apt to react to frustration with extreme emotional outbursts – tantruming, screaming, kicking, spitting, biting, and hair-pulling. At one point, she looked like she had gone through chemotherapy, because she had pulled out so much hair. She was fascinated with things that had repetitive motion, and did not play appropriately with her toys. She was very destructive, and had ruined several large pieces of furniture. We had to strip her room bare of any furniture or toys for her own safety and to limit the distractions for sleeping.
By age 2, she had already undergone surgery for PE tubes, having been found to have a severe hearing loss and very tiny ear canals. During that same surgery, she also underwent an adenoidectomy, due to a noted 7-second sleep apnea. These surgeries were indeed helpful since her hearing was normalized, but had to be repeated twice more before the age of 6.
By age 2 she was receiving full therapy services to including physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. Honestly, we did not see much improvement through these therapies.
Something told my heart that it just wasn’t getting through and something else needed to be dealt with first before therapies could even begin to be successful.
At this point, God had us move from the Washington, DC area to the Dayton, Ohio area. We could not understand why, until a year later we were connected with some naturopathic treatments for autism. Most importantly, the pastor of a large church where we attended prayed every morning at 6 am for Julia and a few other children with special needs.
At first, Julia began receiving cranio-sacral therapy, and over the course of her treatments, the therapist was able to open up the ear canals and Julia no longer needed the PE tubes. She also referred us to another doctor who ran a series of lab tests on Julia and discovered several things. Julia was casein-sensitive. Julia had “leaky gut syndrome”. Julia had a very unusually high level of all sorts of heavy metals – cadmium, zinc, mercury, tin, aluminum, copper, etc.
We started her on the casein-free diet, and the oral chelation treatment to flush the heavy metals out of her tissues. Then, we added the treatment for her leaky gut syndrome. We started with Nystatin to completely purge her bowels followed by a course of probiotics to rebuild the proper balance of flora.
At this point, she gradually began to talk and “connect” with us. It didn’t happen overnight, but over the course of several months, her preschool teachers began commenting their amazement at Julia’s tremendous progress. Julia is now in a mainstream second grade classroom with an aide who is there for her and one or two others.
We have her on a maintanence program of enzymes and probiotics, along with periodic oral chelation. She is taking Risperdal to help her control her outbursts. Academically she is on track with her peers, reading and writing on grade level. Socially, she is surrounded by mainstream friends.
Her teachers often comment that Julia is the center of activity, both in the classroom and on the playground – her mainstream peers genuinely enjoy playing with her. Pretend play is an abundant part of her life. Her speech is still delayed, but moving forward. When you listen to her talk, you might guess that she is several years younger than she is - she has five years of catching up to do!
We continue to be amazed at the strides she is making in her expressive language skills. She struggles with math, but so far is still on grade level.
By no means would I ever characterize Julia as “normal.” However, I do believe that God directed us down the path of naturopathic treatments that drastically improved her condition such that her autism today is quite manageable and her future has a glimmer of hope.
Julia’s presence in our family is having a profound impact on her two older brothers. God is using her to make them into some very fine young men. My husband and I consider it an honor that God chose us to be Julia’s parents. She enables us to experience holding God’s Hand very tightly and to see His Arms around us that much more clearly.
“For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well…” Psalms 139:13,14.
Thank you for allowing me to share my autism testimonial about how God has worked in our lives.
AUTISM TESTIMONIAL
Husband Appreciates
His Homeschooling Wife Of Aspie Kids
My wife has greatly helped our kids with Asperger's Syndrome. She has been homeschooling them and they have responded extremely well.I think that Aspie kids need confidence in what they do. In a regular school setting they will more than likely fall in with "the crowd" to be accepted at their level.
So I let my wife know what a good job I think she does. It is always a tough decision to know what to do and we all want to do the best for our kids but are not always able to know what is best.
I wanted to share my autism testimonial with other husbands and wives.
AUTISM TESTIMONIAL
Autism Improved with Chelation
I am a registered nurse in Houston, Texas. I have 2 children on the autism spectrum. Both were diagnosed early (around 1 1/2 years), and had early childhood intervention, evaluation and therapy from around age 2. The school district picked up where that left off at age 3. One mainstreamed in Kindergarten, and the other in 1st grade. Both do well academically. My son taught himself to read at age 4.I gave birth at home with no drugs. Apgars were 8 and 9 for my daughter with ASD, and 9 and 10 for my son (twin A) with ASD, and 10 and 10 for my other son (twin B).
We do not vaccinate. My daughter with ASD did get one hepatitis B vaccine at 3 days of age. The kids were breastfed virtually exclusively for at least 8 months.
Our doctor at the time had me send their hair for testing and all 3 of my kids tested high for heavy metals - but the 2 with ASD tested higher than the third who we now think he is bipolar - no kidding - when it rains, it pours!
We did oral chelation with DMSA for several rounds for the 2 with ASD (3 days on, a couple weeks off) when they were each 3 to 4 years old. I saw improvement in both kids. My son would even have bursts of language improvement after nearly every round.
Due to financial concerns, we did not complete the entire chelation course and never got to the point of adding in the alpha-lipoic acid that supposedly crosses the blood-brain barrier and goes after the metals there.
My daughter is now 10 and is almost like a typical child - just a bit quirky and has trouble with social skills and reading comprehension/abstract thought.
My son (twin A), now 7, seems to actually get worse - even though he was the more normal child early on (except for language - he could hardly talk even at 3, yet made better eye contact, etc...) He is extremely hyperactive and sometimes agressive. He is on Risperdal and a ADHD stimulant just to function. The school finally had OT look into sensory issues and that has hugely helped, but he still needs the medications.
Other than a tendency toward constipation, the two with ASD seem do not have bad gut problems. They are picky eaters somewhat, but will eat a reasonable diet.
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Mirrors Are Calming
We have used many things to help our son. One of the things he enjoys most is mirrors. We let him watch himself eat, go potty, play, bath and even have a mirror close to his bed. He is very visual and for some reason it calms him to see what he is doing.Return HOME
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