11/20/09 -

There was an interesting article going around the list serv today. See below..

http://www.thecenternj.com/

While the scientific community will have to validate The Center's findings, the model for assessing homeostatic relationships indicates the"trigger" behind autism is an imbalance between apair of amino acid neurotransmitters; glutamate and glycine.

According to The Center's founder, WilliamMcFaul, a retired business person and not amember of the scientific community, "Because ofits universal applicability, our Life Sciencesgroup has already used the model as a tool toidentify highly probable causal paths for several illnesses and disease entities.

Autism was one of most difficult illnesses The Center had attempted to analyze. If it hadn't been for so many parents insisting that vaccines were responsible for the condition, we might never have found the fact that the stabilizer in MMR and a few other vaccines is hydrolyzed gelatin; a substance that is approximately 21% glycine.
It appears that, based on readily verifiable science, the use of that form of glycine triggers an imbalance between the amino acid neurotransmitters responsible for the absorption rate of certain classes of cells throughout the body. It is that wide-spread disruption that apparently results in the systemic problems that encompass the mind and the body characterized in today's 'classic'autism."

He also added, "The use of our model indicates each of the disorders within Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is attributable to different disruptions in homeostasis. We look forward to sharing our findings relative to each disorder with the scientific community."


Wouldn't it be amazing if they actually discovered the cause of autism!

Ok on to other news. Tyler's IEP meeting went fine and we finalized his goals for the next year. I'll share more details on that later, I'm still going over everything. We had Tyler's private speech therapist come into the meeting as well. Our biggest concern about Tyler is obviously that he's not talking and if he were able to talk, his few behavioral issues would likely diminish. So we wanted to make sure that everyone was on the same page in terms of his speech goals.

We had rescheduled speech from Monday to yesterday since Ty was quite full of mucus on monday and not feeling 100%. So moving the day allowed Steve a chance to sit in on speech this week and he really enjoyed it. He said he's amazed at how many sounds she is able to get out of him and how responsive he is to her and how well he knows his roles, etc. and is engaged in an activity. She's really great with him.

Everyone has been under the weather at or house this week so there isn't much sleeping going on, but lots and lots of coughing. It seems that it's all finally subsiding and we are getting better, yeah! Looking forward to a full night of rest.

Tyler is still really intersted in playing gross motor/wrestling type play with Ben. His eye contact and engagement is fantastic.. sometiems Tyler is engaged longer than Ben. They love to jump on Tyler's bed together, both get the giggles and it's such a pleasure to watch.

That's about all for this week. Hope everyone enjoys their weekend.