I am confused often, and – not only because of my children. My son was diagnosed at 3 years and 3 months with autism. Certainly he had many of the behaviors associated with autism, and after an all day assessment both at home and at the care center, we left Columbia SC that day in […]
Mental Health
Pfeiffer Treatment Center will no longer be providing patient care.
2013: Please read the post in it’s entirety in addition to the comment section below for new information that has come to light since we attended the center in 2008. The facility we went to and wrote about is no longer open. To my knowledge we never met with Dr. Anubrolu and this doctor would need further due diligence on […]
Some weeks are easy and some are just plain hard!
Last week was a particularly bad week. It got steadily worse as he ate his way through several foods on his ‘intolerant list’. It was only after the donuts from a well known “the lights are on” donut shop that things really took a turn downwards. I know, I know, totally under my control but sometimes … […]
Brain Balance – appointment 23, give or take!
We had our 2nd assessment appointment last week. It seems B has gone from significantly delayed to almost age level (or beyond) on every item on the checklist. Thankfully we are starting to see those changes at home. I am the last person who really expected this to be a positive solution for us. After […]
Links to autism may start in the gut!?
As I was drinking my coffee and catching up on the news this morning the first 2 stories that jumped out at me are both discussing the relationship between gut health and autism. Only yesterday I was talking to someone about how almost all the autistic kids we know are plagued with chronic gut problems such as diarrhea, […]