Regarding Emmitt's hyperbaric treatments: Emmitt was diagnosed at 2 1/2 years with autism and is now 9. We will be finished with 40 treatments next week. We can say that there has been a HUGE difference in Emmitt in many ways. He has also begun B-12 shots along with the chamber. His language has jumped! He now uses contractions, more full sentences, pronouns, and he is amazing us every day! He has calmed down in his fits at home. We have even seen him calm himself once by shaking it off when he started to get upset. That never happened before. When he does get upset, he quickly recovers now and it is ususally more appropriate. He has begun playing with his siblings appropriately and for more length of time. He has begun setting the table and ate with us once. He has sensory overload and the smell bothers him too much. His world has opened up to him since starting this treatment. He was amazed that the store had SO much. Before he would just follow us. Now he has to check everything out! We thank God and Susan (Dr. Anschutz) for this opportunity to help our child! Pam and Brandon
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In December of 2008 Judah was a completely different person. Although he was always a happy loving little boy, he was miserable physically. He would go days without sleeping; scream uncontrolably and slap his belly. Judah would only eat cheerios, chicken strips, and fries. He would to eat everything else that was not food. He never drank water. Judah's stools were FREQUENT and this weird gel substance. They smelled awful. In therapy he would scream and cry and try to run away. He could feel Josh leave them room, and just go into hysterics. He would not play with toys, and just wanted to watch TV all day.
January 9, 2009- We recieved the food allergy test results. When Judah started his diet, we went "cold turkey" and cut everything out. He also started on olive leaf, monolauren and pancreatic enzymes. Each day his stools got better, they were still frequent but the consitency was becoming more solid.
March 25,2009- Judah's IEP meeting.
Cognitive- Judah likes to play with paper, pulls a string to obtain a toy, takes an object out of a container, watches fast moving objects through the room.
Callier-Azusa scale- cognition up to 24 months with some splinter skills. Judah changes behavior when stimulated, self stims, anticipates a familiar event, moves head and eyes toward sound, recognizes familiar objects, engages in several actions with objects, remembers where an object is located, recongnizes an object even when only partly visible, examines new objects through manipulation,associates familiar objects with specific actions, anticipates routine events through visual/auditiory/other cues, intiates obtaining help in performing a task, knows that a picture represents a real object
Speech 25% delay, after hand over hand assistance to model, Judah will pick the correct picture (out of 2) to match an object. He is working on making sentences with PECS, using "I want" and 1 other card. He will sign "more"
Judah knows what "no" means and will respond to simple commands. He likes music and will move to the rhythm
non-speech receptive language 3-6 months
non-speech receptive language 8-11 months
sleep- Judah sleeping 6-8 hours
dressing- will put his arm in the sleeve, hold your hands while you button, remove his own socks and shoes. up to 24 months
Personal hygiene- up to 36 months will brush own teeth, washes hands with minimal assitance
feeding up to 36 months
Toileting up to 24 months
Social emotional behavioral- explores environment, displays tantrum behaviors and resists adult control, gives hugs and kisses
According to the childhood autism rating scale Judah falls in the severly autistic range
According to the BASC parent rating scale Judah showed clinically significant results for hyperactivity, depression, attention problems, atypicallity, activities of daily living, externalizing problems, and behavioral symptoms
He was at risk for withdrawl, social skills, functional communication, internalizing problems, and adaptive skills
May 2009- Judah started HBOT. He started sleeping better and had better eye contact. Part way through we added chiropractic adjustments. With the combination of the 2 we saw significant progress. He started playing independently and with friends outside. He would play in the sand box, pool and on the swing set. He started going up and down the slide independently. Participating in therapy playing games like barnyard bingo and coloring. He even went to his friends house next door to play inside their fence without us! Judah started participating in children's church. He tantrumed less. He started playing catch. He also stopped mouthing non food items.
July 2009- Judah went to wrestling camp! It was 3 days long, he went without us, and he learned 2 moves. At the end of July, Judah started Brainchild Spectrum support vitamins/minerals and methylated vitamin B
Now- Judah colors independently, will occasionally draw a circle when asked, rides the bus to and from school, occasionally dresses himself. He has started to make consonant sounds and will try to sing songs. He has said words like "step, no, go, good" and others. He will let you know right after he has gone to the bathroom and is following a task analysis for potty training. Judah plays with clay, finger paints, paint brushes, and glue. He will make a collage with hand over hand assistance. It seems like every week he is doing something new. Everyone that know Judah, comments on how well he is doing.
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