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Autism Therapy: Is It Time for Meds? Drug Therapy

on Jan 14, 2009 in Autism Therapy

Parents of a child with autism face very difficult decisions.  What type of autism therapy do I pursue?  Is this behavior correctable through therapy, medicine, or is this just part of his or her make up?  Will this behavior eventually go away? (more…)

 
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Autism Therapy:Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

on Jan 12, 2009 in Autism Therapy

When a child is is first diagnosed with autism, there is this feeling of panic.  I have to fix him/her.  Parents look for whatever autism therapy they can find.  Magic pills.  We all do it.  We want to make our baby “normal”.  There are so many people who claim that their child has been “cured” [...]

 
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Autism Therapy: Interactive Metronome Therapy

on Jan 8, 2009 in Autism Therapy

Recently, we were visiting with Robin and Trey Smith, owners of Simple Strokes Therapy Center. They work with all types of autism therapy for children ages 0-21. Their center is very child-friendly! Both of my sons were very much at home and wanted to stay longer than our social visit. Trey Smith [...]

 
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Autism Therapy: Pragmatic speech therapy

on Jan 6, 2009 in Autism Therapy

All autism therapies are crucial in helping our children, especially early on.  Today I am focusing on one that can help early and even later in development.  Pragmatic speech therapy is just as crucial as any autism therapy.  If a child doesn’t understand the language he or she is learning to speak, then what good [...]

 
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Autism Therapy: The Back To School IEP

on Jan 5, 2009 in Autism Therapy

Wow!  This week, its back to school for most of our kids.  And it is at this time that most of us take a breath and consider:  is my child’s IEP working for them?  Is their autism therapy, teacher, classroom setting, etc. appropriate (yes, we know that word all too well, don’t we?) for our [...]

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