Most of the parents of Treating Autism began the process of helping our children by listening to the stories of other parents, noticing similarities with our own children and our own experiences and proceeding from there to explore possibilities in treatments and therapy optons.
We gain insight and direction from each other's stories, and also hope, as well as admonitions and warnings. The parents' stories here have been generously shared by people who have seen improvements in their children's overall health and behaviour through the use of various biomedical interventions.
Although these are not a series of miraculous and complete recoveries, all of these children have made notable, sometimes remarkable progress.
Alex was diagnosed with 'autism at the higher functioning end' when he was 3 years 9 months old. This is the story of his regression into autism and his journey back into our world. The story isn't finished yet, but we have travelled a long way and are confident that Alex will lead a full, happy and 'normal' life!
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Our son recovered from early-onset autism in 2008 after two and a half years of biomedical interventions. He had health problems from six weeks of age. Despite seeing many doctors, we struggled for a long time to understand his considerable problems. At 18 months of age his diagnosis of autism was suggested and by 20 months his health had deteriorated to the point where doctors now visited him at home.
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At his one year check up his new doctor said, "You know this all equals autism." At the age of six I consider him completely recovered from autism.
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In January of 2009 nothing could have prepared us for the diagnosis of autism that we received for our son, Karl. It didn't feel better knowing what was wrong because we were told that there was nothing that we could do, "it is a neurological problem" and there were no behavioural programmes available. That left me depressed and lost and all that they had to offer was a psychologist to talk to and monthly payments from the government as compensation. Besides this I am Australian and was trying to fight a system in another language.
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