my son has slightautism is Adhd and limited vocabulary

03-28-2004, 10:27 PM

Hello to all

my thoughts are that yoga helps all your organs and body systems to
function . including your brain.

Im a 39 year old mother of a 6 year old autistic child. (only child)I
have particed yoga since I was a child. only when I was a child I did not know
I was doing yoga. I started out watching a earlie morning tv exercise show --
(Jack La Lane) I did the exercisies along with the show.
Then about 11 years ago I was severly ill with alergies which led me to
learning more about yoga. Now with the help of yoga and some diet changes
and some supplements (not prescriptions) I maintain wellness. Over time I
tried multiple prescriptions and I just seemed to get worse instead of better.
I feel that yoga is a way of life its not a quick fix you have to practice
contunously.

So yoga would help the autistic child. and I know it does. Their is
childrens books and videos on yoga out there. My son just has allways done the
excercises along with me with a little help some times, I dont do it very
seriously with him, so its kinda physical contact/ play-yoga time all rolled
into
one. My son is on wheat gluten and dairy free diet. However he was on this
wheat and dairy free since birth because I knew I was alergic to it. One thing I
notice with most parents is that they usually want there children to sit in
there seats correctly at all times --- get over it --- when the kids are layng
in
iverted positions on the couch or some other strange posture it is actually
good for them --look at it and compare it to yoga postures.
Earlier in life when I was going threw alergie problems I found
that removing gluten wheat and dairy from my diet was extreemly helpful and
eating 1 to 2 grapefruits a day relieved me of a stuffed up nose.

If i remember correctly I think I read in the Indego children
book I think that epsom salt baths are help full. If not sorry, but i found it
someware in a book.

Epson salt is magnesium. This helps my son with hyper activity. I give him 1
to 3 baths a week. The Idego children book have some wonderfull information
on ADD, AdHD, and recipeis. Another good book is ( Unraveling the Mystery of
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder) by Karyn Seroussi

I also have been to the foot reflexologist several times in my
life and know that I felt great after recieving reflexology. I rub my son feet
every night while he goes to
sleep. There are points on the feet that help the brain to function.
I think that all these methods help the autictic child and that
the autism is less noticeable. I havent found the trick that seems to get it to
go compleetly away--Im still searching. Then on the other hand maybe the
sighns of Austism are teaching us how to live our lives better and whatch what
we
eat. to realize the production methods of our food is a terrible injustice.
and to take notice of polution and what we can do about it and to realize
what is not being done about it.
My son is smart actually when you listen with your eyes to him and
really try to understand him. My son does know over 200 hundred sighn
language sighns since his speach is so impared and I am currently taking sighn
language classes so I can learn it well and teach it to him.
Feel free to contact me at any time.
Sat Nam............Kim

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