Can you recover from Autism?

The answer is yes.  I often get told in passing about Joel my nine year old son who has severe autism 'and he won't get better will he?' well the answer is actually yes he is getting better all the time with biomedical intervention, ABA school and searching constantly for therapies which have helped him notably the Scotson technique from the Advance Centre and regular oxygen therapy - www.scotsontechnique.com.  We are lucky the centre is not far from us as there's only one in the UK and one in South Africa.  People travel countries to receive this therapy and Joel is down the road!

Biomedical intervention is basically healing kids with autism who have severe gut issues which is what Joel has.  We go to the Annual Treating Autism Conference and get so inspired from the Doctors /Parents/Grandparents who treat autism and indeed recover some children from autism with biomedical intervention - treatingautism.co.uk

Joel in January 2011

Joel is getting better all the time so to all the people who think autism can't be treated it can but for some it takes longer and results aren't instant but progress happens.  But children with autism need the right intervention educationally too and without this they can regress like Joel did.  This picture of Joel around the time he started at his ABA school Step by Step was in January 2011.  Joel had severely regressed into his autism after we got back from Australia in Sumemr 2009.  The biomedical intervention went out the window along with the ABA intervention.  Joel was put in a special needs school for a year without autism specialists and he was babysat instead of being taught anything.  He began to wet his pants, get very distressed and make very loud noises all the time and verbally stimming you call it when repeating a word over and over again as this satisfies his sensory needs.



Joel on his 9th Birthday with Dad Jake in Lourdes

This photo to the right is Joel a year and a half later after being at Step by Step school for children with autism and having biomedical intervention and the other therapies I mentioned.  He is so much calmer, happier and more present. 


There is no quick fix for my son but I know that he is so much better from having received these interventions and this gives us hope!

Don't lose hope as these photos show the difference in Joel and I have to remind myself how far we've come in the space of a year and a half when I'm having bad days.  There are plenty of them in the world of autism.  Joel was distressed just this evening about something but he couldn't tell us.   I am not painting a corny picture I hope as this is not a 'before' and 'happily ever after' shot as this is not the case.  But it's small steps. 

By the way not to sound too naff but I did forget to mention one important ingredient for helping a child with autism as well as the other numerous therapies.....LOVE.  He receives this in abundance.