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To my delight, one of our moms came in this week and said that her 12 year old had recognized some words for the first time. Apparently, she was scrolling down the DVR in order to watch one of her shows. As she did this the child said “Barney” and she said “we are not watching Barney.” Then he said “Dora” and she said “no we are not watching Dora.” She then figured out that he was recognizing the words on the screen. So she pointed to them and he read them. “I almost cried” she said. Appparently, he has been at the pre reading stage for 3 years. This child is very low functioning. Since he started Hemispheric Integration Therapy with me about 3 months ago his speech therapist and O.T. have been impressed with his progress ( it all works together.)This is what makes treating these children better than anythng I have ever done.The kids and the moms are amazing.
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We recently had a mom who took her child in for allergy testing. The child is a low functioning autistic boy. She wanted to see if there was anything relating to food etc. that she should be avoiding in order to help her child progress. The child had standard allergy testing with all the little needle sticks in his back. After the testing, this child who had been making substantial progress with his hemispheric integration treatment (H.I.T), regressed back to almost the way he was on his first visit. He had more vocalizations and just overall regressed in many ways. The testing was negative and should then theoretically have had no affect on the child. The allergist was aware of the regression as he had noticed the child’s overall improvement since beginning the hemispheric integration treatment several weeks prior to the testing. He stated that he had notced the same type of regression reaction in some other children. He was going to talk to some colleagues about doing a study regarding this reaction. Most importantly for all of you is that he said there is a way to get allergy testing through a blood draw. By using a blood draw test as opposed to a needle stick test no foreign substances would be introduced into the patient’s body and therefore this regression could be avoided. I hope that this is the type of information that will be helpful to my bloggers and I hope to share with the community in addition to my knowledge of Hemispheric Interation Therapy, functional medicine and biomedical interventions. There are hundreds of stories like this out there that we can share and possibly help someone else somwhere else in the world. Please post. Please share. Please help.
