Andrew's Road to Recovery from Autism

Our son Andrew was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder when he was almost 5 years old after being mis-diagnosed when he was 3 with only a learning disability. In addition to ASD he has low muscle tone and sensory processing disorder. At the time of his diagnosis he had very little eye contact, would never respond to his name, had no interest in other children, didn’t have any imaginative play, didn’t talk, wave, point or kiss. Where did our little boy go? He had all of the right developmental milestones when he was a baby, but somewhere along the way we lost him.

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability with difficulties in social interaction, impaired communication, restricted and repetitive interests and behaviours and sensory sensitivities. In 1980 1 in 5000 was diagnosed Autistic. Today 1 in 110 children is diagnosed with Autism and 1 in 70 boys. This is now a World Wide Epidemic.

Since being diagnosed we have treated Andrew’s Autism with the biomedical approach. He has been in Physical Therapy since he was 1, Speech Therapy since he was 2 and Occupational Therapy since he was 3. He is now 7 years old, still in diapers, still non-verbal and still a very special little boy. He now has eye contact, he even initiates it. He is drawn to other children, plays appropriately (most of the time) and is making sounds. A “mama” or “da” here and there, but it is progress. We are on the right road. The road to recovery.

With all of Andrew’s therapies, all organic gluten free/casein free diet, detoxing of heavy metals, vitamins and supplements, doctor visits and prescriptions, the bills add up really fast. I am a mother on a mission to heal my son and I’ll do anything possible to help him. I have watched him in Speech Therapy work on an iPad and I know that this is the assistive device that can help him Learn and Communicate with us.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

With the help of the A4cwsn community (Apps for Children with Special Needs) and Gary James Andrew was gifted an Ipad. He has come so far on this device it is just amazing! When we first started he was all over the place, now he can put together complex puzzles, is spelling with help of prompts and discovering more and more every day. For some reason children with ASD just "connect" with devices like the iPad. We really don't know why, but we embrace it. He is learning while having fun.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Smart Apps for Kids is giving a way an iPad Mini!! Click link below to enter.
Good Luck!

http://www.smartappsforkids.com/2012/10/oh-my-squawking-squid-ipad-mini-giveway.html%20

Friday, September 7, 2012

Great way to win an ipad for your child or school:
http://www.smartappsforkids.com/giveaway-instructions.html

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Links for Educational Apps

smartappsforkids.com/Cached

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