Are We Asking Them to Do Their Best While They Feel Their Worst?
By Janet Lintala Janet Lintala is author of The Un-Prescription for Autism: A Natural Approach for a Calmer, Happier, and More Focused Child The fog is like a cage without a key. Elizabeth Wurtzel IEPs, aides, modifications, tutoring, special classrooms, and well-trained, dedicated teachers are useful resources to help students on the autism spectrum. But are we putting them into school and therapies when they aren’t feeling their best? New research indicates they may not be as ready to learn as we thought. A look inside the brain of your autistic student: Take the example of two students sitting side…
Avoid Side Effect Hell, and Support Vibrant Health Instead
I am on a mission to change the way conventional medicine approaches autism. Worldwide research reveals that autistic children and adults have health challenges that can affect their mood, sleep, bowels and behavior. These often-invisible health conditions can include constipation, acid reflux, belly pain, inflammation and ulcers, and even autoimmune attack on the brain. Autistic children and adults tend to have more colds, allergies and asthma, and are more prone to gastrointestinal infections. Yikes, kids are irritable if they don’t feel well, and then they get medicated for the difficult behaviors. The Matching Game The conventional medical approach tends to…
“Bless You!” A Simple Immune Protocol
Children always seems to catch a lot of colds when they go back to school in August every year, with lots of teachers and classmates coughing and sniffling. Is your child getting sick a lot, too? Got the pharmacy on speed-dial? Start now and get your child’s immune system ready for the “back to school” germ-fest in August! We use a simple immune-boosting protocol at our center called “Bless You!” that seems to work wonders for many of our patients. These are the children that moms refer to as “Frequent Flyers” at the pediatrician’s office! We start with high-potency probiotics…
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish