Tinsley house people with children with aspergers dx If you have a moment pls can you answer a couple of q's?

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Ds is 6 and has aspergers. In the two years since dx I've gone from grief that my beautiful boy was not 'normal', to guilt for wishing he was anything other than the gorgeous chap he is to now some kind of acceptance that he is who he is and it's my job to help him find coping strategies.
I read your whole thread last night and now feel full of hope that we could possibly 'cure' him. The idea that he could lead as 'normal' a life as his sister makes me want to jump up and down.
So my questions: how quickly did you see changes? Is it worth trying the plan from the book first (bought it last night) or is it necessary to go to the clinic to get significant results? Is the plan one for life or is the child effectively meant to be cured by the end of the programme?

Oh and thanks for reading

Hi,

The first 2 months of the therapy are described in the book:

• the diet
• the vitamins / supplements
• the stairs exercise
• tooth brushing exercise

All of us whose children are older than about 5 have started with that.

If you follow that for 2 months you should see improvements.

Then, to get the next bit of the therapy you need to visit a clinic.

There are other clinics in the UK if the new forest is too far away.

The first appt is £250.

The plan is not for life. The whole therapy takes 12-18 months and I certainly expect at the end of it DS to be cured and need no further help.

Already, after only 6 months, he is vastly better. If this was the end of the treatment I'd be very pleased with the results. But it's not. We're not even half way through yet, so I expect way more improvements.

The majority of Aspergers symptoms are caused by problems with the prefrontal cortex (emotional, social, anxiety....). And we haven't even started exercises to help that yet. We're still working on the cerebellum.

So to summarise, you should see changes in 2 months of following the plan at home. If you do, then go visit TH to continue the treatment.

And feel free to PM me if you have any more questions :)

That is great thank you. Would be amazing to help ds before he starts to realise that he is different from his peers. On a selfish basis would love to see fewer melt downs

Only other thing to say is:

1. DS went gluten and dairy free as well as following the TH diet (inspired by the GAPS diet). I think that was necessary.

Now, after 6 months of being gluten free we're reintroducing it. You don't have to be GF for life, just until his leaky gut heals.

1. Before we started at TH DS had already done auditory integration therapy and retained reflex therapy. Both of which also helped. So obviously I don't know what TH would have been like if we hadn't started with those other therapies.......

Having said that, I'd still recommend you start with TH and GF.