My 8 year old son just visited a Developmental
Optometrist (in Northern Virginia) this past month.
He is diagnosed with Asperger's -- very high IQ, quite
verbal, OCD tendencies, mostly behavioral and social
problems.

His near and far vision is excellent, but his
horizontal tracking and inability to use both eyes
together properly was a problem. The optometrist
suggested glasses with a slight prism in each eye to
align the eyes properly when he reads and writes. He
is NOT to use them except for desk work because it
will distort his near and far vision and depth
perception. Before the glasses, when my son read, he
covered one eye or rubbed it, skipped mostly small
words and became fatigued quickly. He's had the
glasses for about a month and almost all those
symptoms have disappeared. Now, he asks for his
glasses when he writes or reads at home, and remembers
HIMSELF to use them for all his schoolwork. This is
pretty astounding because my son is very disorganized
and absent-minded. So the fact that he remembers to
use his glasses means to me that they are alieviating
a lot of stress for him.

By the way, we are currently chelating and are in the
middle of month two, using MetalFree. First two
weeks, we didn't see anything unusual, week three and
four were sporadically difficult (temper, rashes,
emotional), but the last two weeks have been fabulous.
He's been so darn social and affectionate. Today he
had a five minute conversation on the phone with my
mother -- usually he adamantly refuses to use the
phone! School is cruising along nicely, too.

In terms of interventions -- we've pretty much done
(and are still doing) them all. We started with the
GFCF diet, nutritional supplements, OT, Auditory
Intergration Training (something that has been REALLY
great for my super sensitive hearing son!), social
skills training, Feingold Diet (this diet really gave
us great results -- he can not tolerate even the
slightest bit of salycilites), anti-viral medications,
allergy medications and immunotherapy drops. It took
us about two years to get his yeast/gut problems under
control -- they were so severe. Finally, at the end
of January, he was ready for chelation, so here we
are!

All I can say is he is really moving forward and I
have such high hopes that maybe one day we'll be able
to be listed on Dana's "Recovery Page."

Julie C.

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