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| Recovery Story |
Born: |
2007 |
Symptoms: |
Profound speech delay, moderate-severe fine/gross motor skills delay, sensory issues, reflux, eczema, aggressive behaviors, mild self injury, sleep disturbances, poor social interactions with peers, poor eye contact, perseveration, severe tantrums, and lost interest in toys. |
Formal Diagnosis: |
His formal diagnosis is PDD-NOS, as per his developmental pediatrician. When we were first referred to Early Childhood Intervention, he was diagnosed as having speech delay and developmental delay. |
Helpful Therapies: |
CF diet, epsom salt baths, Nordic Naturals Children's DHA capsules, Folinic Acid w/ B12, ABA (Verbal Behavior method), speech stimulation exercises, and LOTS OF LOVE |
Helpful Clinicians: |
ABA specialist (who practices Verbal Behavior Method), developmental pediatrician, and Early Childhood Intervention team of specialists. |
Lost diagnosis (months): |
5 |
Cause: |
After his 15 month vaccine, my son who was developing in a mostly typical manner lost all his motor/speech skills. I believe that my son was born with a genetic predisposition that made him extra vulnerable to environmental triggers like trace toxins in a routine vaccine. |
What Happened: |
I think my son is well on his way to being recovered. My son started getting therapy and early intervention, on January 9th. We had a behavior analyst, a speech stimulation teacher, and an occupational therapist. He no longer needs an occupational therapist, and we have traded in our behavior analyst for an ABA consultant. ABA is a very intense education based therapy, but it gets results. She is basically training me to be his 'teacher'.
The good news: My son is currently speaking in short sentences. He has use of around 50+ words. He is beginning to ask questions, follows simple instructions, and is eloping far less than usual. He is no longer aggressive, and plays well with other children. He will seek out other children to play with. He imitates, has age appropriate creative play, age appropriate dramatic play, he is loving and affectionate. His eye contact is near perfect, most of the time. He has a regular bedtime, and sleeps through the night. He wakes at the same time every morning. The tantrums are a rare occurance, these days. He plays with toys by himself, and will babble while playing. He initiates play, affection, and social interactions. The sensory issues are all resolved, the eczema is a rare occurence, and there is no longer any kind of self injury. At this point, I am expecting my son to make a full recovery and shed his diagnosis - at some point.
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Comments: |
While we still have a way to go, I consider my son well on his way to recovery. I will gladly take his diagnosis of PDD-NOS, with high cognitive level, and mild display of autistic like symptoms over Classic Autism. I think lots of love, hard work, therapies, and biomedical made all the difference. |
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