October 27, 2016
Children with autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders often experience symptoms that are triggered by certain foods, habits, or environmental factors, or a lack of certain nutrients or habits. The many possible contributors to your child’s symptoms can seem impossible to nail down. To get to the bottom of your child’s symptoms, tracking his food intake along with other health details is key. Today I am going to show you how to get organized—from small details to the big picture—to help recover your child and How to Keep and Review Your Child's Food Journal For Maximum Results.
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October 20, 2016
There are many dietary approaches you can use to help your child with autism, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Today I am going to reveal the Top 10 Therapeutic Diets and How They Can Help Your Child, and discuss a few of them in detail.
Diet is the first intervention by physicians and other practitioners who specialize in working with our children. Proper diet is fundamental to correcting the underlying causes of neurological symptoms. Often, parents see “miraculous” results when implementing dietary interventions which focus on removing inflammatory foods which are actually part of our Top 10 Therapeutic Diets that provide nutrients that support gut healing and detoxification.
As I mentioned in one of my earliest articles, I took the “all or nothing” approach to dietary change with my daughters and dove head first into the GAPS diet. But my path may not be right for you—each child is different, and there are many variables to consider before choosing how to proceed with your child. In addition to the brief discussion below of the Top 10 Therapeutic Diets to consider, download my Top Ten Therapeutic Diets Cheat Sheet for an overview of your options.
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July 14, 2016
More and more, we are seeing children with nutritional deficiencies, a phenomenon that studies show is even more apparent in children with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD. Today we will explore what you need to know about the top nutrient deficiencies found in our children, including: what the research has shown to be the most common deficiencies, how the deficiencies contribute to their symptoms, why these deficiencies exist, how you can find out if your child is deficient and what you can do to correct the vitamin, mineral, fatty acid, amino acid and mineral deficiencies in your child. The good news is, nutritional deficiencies that are impacting your child’s ability to thrive can be corrected.
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June 23, 2016
I’ve attended a number of different conferences and course over the years, in person and online, in a quest to learn all I can to help my daughter. This past April I attended the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs (MAPS) conference for the first time. It was an intense three days of learning. The MAPS conference is a continuing education conference that allows medical practitioners to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the research and clinical applications in the area of biomedical treatments for special needs children, with a specific focus on children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
MAPS is a conference of clinicians and researchers who are in the trenches treating kids everyday, pushing forward what they have learned from clinical experience while being guided by research. I read a lot and have been to many courses, but I was looking for a comprehensive program where the curriculum addressed all areas of biomedical treatments and interventions currently available. That’s why I decided to go to the MAPS conference, and I was not disappointed. The depth of information and quality of practitioners and instructors is second to none. While I can’t share all I learned in one article, I will share a few points of interest that I took away from my three days there.
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April 28, 2016
Have you ever come across an interesting article talking about a new angle on an underlying cause of your child’s disorder? Or have you read a killer blog post that took you down a rabbit hole of research about the next great nutrient, diet, therapy, gadget, (fill in the blank here)? I have, and more times than I’d like to admit. Before you go all Alice-in-Wonderland and change things up with your child’s routine, let’s take a step back and consider this before making changes to your child’s recovery interventions. Let's talk about how to figure out the best ways to determine when is the right time to make a change or implement a new therapy or protocol for your child.
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April 14, 2016
Say what? Books Over Blogs to Build Your Knowledge? You heard me. Learning from books beats blog learning any day. It’s true. Every time I write a blog post, I try to squeeze in as much information as possible to be both concise and complete. It's hard. In order to keep my post lengths easily consumable, I sometimes need to leave details out. That being said, blogs can be the catalyst for change. A blog post can inspire a new direction that you may never had learned elsewhere. However, your best bet is to use blogs to introduce you to new information and then take that learning further by finding the right books. The experience of reading a book enhances your knowledge and often is just what you’ll need to take action.
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