Nathan's NAET

Well this morning we headed off to Glendive to do Nathan's NAET treatment for his Autism. It was his 17th or 18th treatment and I was pretty excited as the DVD's I watched on the NAET casestudies showed the five children started to talk after their 15th treatment.

While we were waiting for Kay to see us, Nathan and I were discussing stuff and I was tickling his tummy.
The day before we had gone through all the christmas words I could think of e.g. christmas eve, christmas tree, christmas presents etc.

Since October something had been bothering me and I was about to have a revelation. I just didn't know it at the time.
Nathan would stand at the windows and look out and say something that sounded like "critisize".
It bothered me that he would keep repeating this negative sounding word over and over.
It came out a lot when it snowed and I just couldn't see how or where he would have picked it up and why he would have retained it.

While I was sitting there tickling his stomach, he turned to me and said as clearly as I talk, "Christmas time".
Then he added "Christmas Day".

There was my revelation!

He associated snow with christmas time, he wasn't saying critisize, that is what it sounded like when he said christmas time.

It brought tears to my eyes. The NAET seems to be taking forever to complete but if I ever needed confirmation that it was working, well there it was.

When Kay and Shirl came out, I told them and I was just so happy and grateful that my little boy is showing signs of getting his speech back.

The NAET had started improving the clarity of his speech but I was just so impressed with Christmas time. You could not have been able to tell that he was impaired if you just heard him say it.

Awesome, I fully recommend this treatment to anyone whose child has Autism.
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Nathan's NAET

Well, Nathan turned my alarm clock off this morning but luckily I seem to be getting used to the change in times again so I woke up anyway.
Blondie came over and looked after the children while I took Nathan to his NAET treatment in Glendive.
Since Nathan started his NAET treatments, I believe we have seen more spontaneous speech and much greater clarity. It is just really slow going. One treatment per week for what seems like forever.

We did a combination spice and caffeine removal today and it turns out that Nathan is extremely allergic to caffeine so he was quite entertaining when the caffeine vial was placed anywhere near him. By entertaining I mean that this normally quiet and sedentary young man somehow came up with the energy to climb up on the table and do a little dance, then he expected me to give him the fireman lift. He was also extremely vocal.

I told Kay about his change in behaviours at the grocery store and we both agreed that maybe going shopping for groceries after his treatments was just not a good idea.

Turns out that I have to bring him back tomorrow to do another treatment to clear the caffeine so Blondie is going to come and she can take the 3 kids to the park while I do the grocery shopping.

In looking around the web, I did come across a website where they said that they had gone through the treatments with their Autistic child and made pretty close to a full recovery.

It would be nice to have Nathan's Autism reduced to the point where only a really discerning eye could pick it up.
Then I wouldn't have to spend the next 10 yrs teaching him to say, "Welcome to MacDonalds, can I take your order please?"
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Communication

Kathleen continues to throw out words.
This morning she told me that she wanted juice. Coulda knocked me down with a feather.
Then this evening while we were playing our after bath game, I hugged her and told her that I loved her and she repeated it.
Wow!!!

If Kathleen's communication improves, it will make a heck of a difference in her recovery from Autism.
A lot of her Autism signs and symptoms appear to be fading as she gets older.

It has been a long time since I have seen her line up any of her toys. Occasionally she will stack video cases, but that has been a while also.

Her screaming has been reduced to when she can't get you to understand what she wants or you tell her no and she really wanted to do it. But even that is short lived and most of the time, you can distract her by going off to do something else.

I feel that if Kathleen gained speech, very little would be left of her Autistic tendencies and what little was left, could be worked with.

She is currently not only throwing out words sporadically, but also 3 to 4 word sentences.
Unfortunately, these are not coming on a regular basis yet.
I am hoping that this is starting to change.

Wow, is our life going to be different.
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