LindainOK
09-21-2009, 02:09 PM
Have you heard of Far Above Rubies magazine and website? I've subscribed for a while and enjoy the encouraging newsletters for moms and homeschooling. Today, the following was in the newletter and I thought of some of you and the struggles you face. I don't know anything about this naturopath or her methods, yet I wanted to at least offer the info incase it could be helpful. Moderator, please let me know if I should not post such info. Linda
Taken from FAR weekly newsletter:
Nancy W, writes,
Below is a note I just sent to Lily's naturopath, Dr. Shauna Young, in Durango, CO. Her theory about autism (our daughter, Lily has Asperger's) is that it is largely caused by an overload in the brain of the trace mineral manganese. Manganese competes for the same receptor site as iron. Lily began a detoxing diet on May 1, 2009, eating foods that have no or very low manganese content while filling up on high iron, high beta-carotene foods as well as healthy chocolate (see www.TheHealthyChocolateFolks.com (http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=BgeJF&m=1d47MaDCgtlkiD&b=zZf4RHR4lvmVgTh3kmHZvg)) Lily turned 11 in May. It's now been 2.5 mos. and we have a new child! I am so grateful to God for leading us to this answer after unsuccessfully trying SO MANY alternative diets and traditional meds as well.
Dr. Young's website is www.NoHarmFoundation.org (http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=BgeJF&m=1d47MaDCgtlkiD&b=kSDqiOu5HxV78xv0i4p81A)
Hi Dr.Shauna!
Today we resurrected Lily's math workbook, which I'd pretty much abandoned back in early February, because her progress was so slow. It's about first/second grade work and she's supposed to be in fifth. She just couldn't focus long enough to ever complete it. The previous pages are filled with her formula horse drawings. You can even see the few times her mind was lucid because her handwriting was sharp, there are no drawings, and the work is correct. But most of the pages are a diary of how horrible it's been. Today we looked through those pages for maybe ten minutes to just get the gist of what she'd been working on and then did a three-page review of the works.
She did not balk about doing the entire thing in spite of the neighbor child being over and playing with her siblings. She wrote crisply, worked consistently and with perseverance, never raised her voice or screamed when she got stuck or if she messed up, and never doodled one tiny teeny bit!
The whole thing is icing on the cake of our new little girl who:
--Volunteers to help us and then sticks with the job
--Just read an entire 335 page book (Red wall) in three days (versus her past habit of picking up one book and reading a chapter or two in the middle of it and then dropping it for another book and so on)
--Isn't screaming and freaking out over the dumbest things
--Now draws beautiful, typical little girl pictures...when she draws. She used to draw all day/every day her formula horse and lions, usually pooping, fighting with vicious teeth, and/or mating.
We have lots of social skill learning to catch up on, and there are many chores to learn, chores she could not stick with long enough to make it worth the fight to get her to do them before now. There are table manners to learn and grooming habits to make. But that's all possible now that her mind is unclogged!
NancyW in Tennessee, creativemess10@yahoo.com (creativemess10@yahoo.com)
Taken from FAR weekly newsletter:
Nancy W, writes,
Below is a note I just sent to Lily's naturopath, Dr. Shauna Young, in Durango, CO. Her theory about autism (our daughter, Lily has Asperger's) is that it is largely caused by an overload in the brain of the trace mineral manganese. Manganese competes for the same receptor site as iron. Lily began a detoxing diet on May 1, 2009, eating foods that have no or very low manganese content while filling up on high iron, high beta-carotene foods as well as healthy chocolate (see www.TheHealthyChocolateFolks.com (http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=BgeJF&m=1d47MaDCgtlkiD&b=zZf4RHR4lvmVgTh3kmHZvg)) Lily turned 11 in May. It's now been 2.5 mos. and we have a new child! I am so grateful to God for leading us to this answer after unsuccessfully trying SO MANY alternative diets and traditional meds as well.
Dr. Young's website is www.NoHarmFoundation.org (http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=BgeJF&m=1d47MaDCgtlkiD&b=kSDqiOu5HxV78xv0i4p81A)
Hi Dr.Shauna!
Today we resurrected Lily's math workbook, which I'd pretty much abandoned back in early February, because her progress was so slow. It's about first/second grade work and she's supposed to be in fifth. She just couldn't focus long enough to ever complete it. The previous pages are filled with her formula horse drawings. You can even see the few times her mind was lucid because her handwriting was sharp, there are no drawings, and the work is correct. But most of the pages are a diary of how horrible it's been. Today we looked through those pages for maybe ten minutes to just get the gist of what she'd been working on and then did a three-page review of the works.
She did not balk about doing the entire thing in spite of the neighbor child being over and playing with her siblings. She wrote crisply, worked consistently and with perseverance, never raised her voice or screamed when she got stuck or if she messed up, and never doodled one tiny teeny bit!
The whole thing is icing on the cake of our new little girl who:
--Volunteers to help us and then sticks with the job
--Just read an entire 335 page book (Red wall) in three days (versus her past habit of picking up one book and reading a chapter or two in the middle of it and then dropping it for another book and so on)
--Isn't screaming and freaking out over the dumbest things
--Now draws beautiful, typical little girl pictures...when she draws. She used to draw all day/every day her formula horse and lions, usually pooping, fighting with vicious teeth, and/or mating.
We have lots of social skill learning to catch up on, and there are many chores to learn, chores she could not stick with long enough to make it worth the fight to get her to do them before now. There are table manners to learn and grooming habits to make. But that's all possible now that her mind is unclogged!
NancyW in Tennessee, creativemess10@yahoo.com (creativemess10@yahoo.com)