You are just too hyper, Rogway.  You need a good dose of Ritalin to calm you down. Your spelling will not get better, but you will certainly not care if it does because you will be flying high!

Rogway - Excellent Point - Parents would be absolutely amazed at the incredible positive changes in their children if they fed them mostly fruits and vegetables, removed all processed foods and and drinks.  I just don't understand why more parents don't try this route...what's more important?  A child who becomes more calmer, focused and mellow.........or freakin' easy foods?

And remember, from Tufts University - organic has 88% more nutritional value than non-organic!

Amen to that!!!!!!! You can't put water in a gas tank and expect the car to run, so why do we expect to put junk nutrition in a growing body and expect that to work!!!!!  Old saying " you are what you eat", eat real food, have real health, eat processed food.... suffer the consequences.

Right from the horse's (teacher's) mouth. First hand, personal and right up front experience. Artificial colors and artificial flavors + young child = dose that young puppy! Psychotropic drugs = $$$ for all. $$$ for the drug company that sells the poison; $$$ for the Dr that prescribes the poison and $$$ for the school district that keeps that young puppy coming through the doors each day. Forget about the causes of ADHD. Forget about the effects of the highly processed foods and sugars, just show me the money!

Not Just Music.

Please Consider EEG BioFeedback Training.

Many forms of ADD/ADHD have subtypes that can ONLY be found on QEEG!!!

And the diagnosis of ADD can be done without using SYMPTOMS.  There are specific brain patterns...

Now consider this.  Children can be taught to control them and alter them.

Hmmm, no drugs required.  After a period of treatments, NORMAL BRAINWAVES become permanent, and require little or no follow-up.

You can BET that big Pharma will NOT tell you about this.

Search the Internet for "EEG Biofeedback" and ADD or ADHD.

This could be somewhat related to the effect some get from Music...

You are right on!!!  Who is your Dr? You must know that there are thousands that need your guidance and experience. Don't stop with your daughter...honor her with the fact that you will document and expose the truth of autism. She deserves no less as a victim of a drug company's quest for profit.

Hi kimkc, that is wonderful that your daughter has made such a big improvement.  I know of a non invasive form of chelation that works as well as or better than intravenous chelation.  It is called the Body Detox Patch available at www.straussheartdrops.com  Beware of similar products as this one has been tested for contaminants and contains none.  I have used this successfully on my own kids.  (I am not affiliated with this product)

kimkc - what wonderful info, thanks for sharing.  Your story will inspire others to seek alternative ways..........yeah! Best wishes for your little one! :)

My autistic child is seeing Dr. Philip Ranheim in WA State, as well as, my oldest son who we found is extremely allergic to cow's milk and then peanut butter, wheat, and eggs in that order along with many environmental allergies (interestingly the same exact same panel my husband had tested positive for when he was a teenager).  Our psychologist (a Bastyr Univ. adjunct professor)who is working with our family suggested that we not go with our dentist or MD's advice to have his tonsils removed and get our oldest boy tested for allergies.  Sure enough, changing his diet and starting oral allergy drops has eliminated his sticky throat language that developed along with no hay fever type symptoms during his baseball season last spring!  We have switched from regular clinics to naturopaths as many families with autistic child have done.  Along with a friend, I am starting an information support group in our town which will include speakers/discussions on diet, biomedical, behavior, and many other therapies.  It amazes me how many kids in my older daughter and son's academically capable classrooms that are somewhere on the autism spectrum!  I do believe that the higher the IQ, the more fragile the brain is to environmental assaults...the psychologist believes our autistic daughter has incredibly high intelligence which is what we saw before the horrible, heart-breaking regression.  Thank you for the information about the patch...I will check out the website. :) After we stopped chelation, we started epsom salt baths which I believe has helped our daughter but to a smaller degree than chelation therapy.  She broke out with chicken pox type bumps on her back after 3-4 weeks of baths and has been putting out extremely strong odors in bowel movements, urine and skin with a lack of overall progression.  My friend's autistic son did the same thing after he started these baths then he had a huge leap in his abilities!!!  

kimkc

At least you now have the right information and tools to help your daughter. I have an autistic older brother, my parents deal with him by putting him on meds and let him waste his life cleaning the movie theater and eating whatever crap he finds at the fast food joints there. Funny thing, he has only gotten worse since he started to work there, and he has become more and more strange and agressive. My younger brother has ADHD, they dealt with him by putting him on Ritalin and scratching there heads as to why his behavior got worse, not better. Even as a young girl I understood that it was the medicine and I wanted to throw it away, even my brother hated it because he would crash at night and he wasn't able to recover. Guess what, he is a really messed up kid.

Keep them off meds, anyone who is paying attention can see that they do more harm then good. Good luck with your daughter and P.S. don't let her get stuck in "special" education, in some ways it is a good thing and there are good people there, but in other ways I think my brother acted more strange because normal behavior wasn't modeled to him.

To TGNMOM

You are right....u Down Syndrome boy who is now 23 was in a normal highschool in Italy where they mainstream...now that i have moved to Greece my son stays in acentre in Italy with children/ young adults far worse than he is and they have spoilt him as well....now his behaviour is FAR worse and he "models" the other kids and now in public he is completely socially unacceptable!!! I took him off all milk products and not only did his diarrhoea stop after all these years but NO MORE psoriasis!!! I have been reading EVERYWHERE about psoriasis and no one said No Milk = No psoriasis