Meet The Team at Treating Autism
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Hello from the Team at Treating Autism.
Back Row - Joanne and Lara Front Row - Karen , Caroline and Sally |
| Karen Charman | Membership Secretary and Librarian |
| Karen lives in Buckinghamshire with husband Simon, two youngest children, Joe (8) and Sam (6). Joe was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder aged 2 years 10 months. On receiving Joe?s diagnosis Karen gave up her job as a Conveyancing Executive for a local Law firm to set up and manage time Son-Rise programme for Joe, which has now been running for over 5 years, with the help of volunteers, helping Joe learn to socialize and communicate. Introducing a gluten casein free diet at the age of 4 stopped Joe regressing further into autism and Karen has made many further modifications to Joe?s diet since, including Specific Carbohydrate and Low Oxalate Diets plus various supplements. Karen has been treating Joe biomedically for the past 4 years, and is currently following the Yasko protocol. Regular visits to a McTimoney Chiropractor have helped with Joe?s sensory issues as has Auditory Integration Training. As well as being a Trustee of Treating Autism, Karen serves on the Management Com particular emphasis on special needs. Karen is the only Grandma on our team, to Jamie, 6 month old son of eldest daughter Natalie. |
Lara Hawkings | Regional Co-ordinator
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| My connection with Treating Autism started in December 2006, I found by chance that a bio medical conference was taking place at Bournemouth & signed up straight away. I couldn't believe my luck; we had been following the DAN! Protocol with Edward since May 06 and had done okay ourselves but I knew there was so much to learn, the conference blew my mind! & I was ready to help & get the message across to parents, so inspired by Tina and Jo's talk about there sons I did local talks about the diet at organisiations and local radio. I was spotted by the T.A who asked me to join, I was thrilled and here I am ready for T.A action. I am currently co-ordinating regional and local groups. As for my family, well Edward is nearly 5, he was diagnosed when he was 3 ½ and we stared bio med a month earlier, we started after I read Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: A Mother's Story of Research & Recovery by Bernard Rimland and Karyn Seroussi which was so similar to my story with Edward. We knew that intervention would work with Edward after reading her story and it did, he has come back to our family after we lost him to autism at about the age of 12 months on wards. He got progressively worse and we just coped and managed his behavioral at home when he was 19 months old his younger brother was born (Toby) he is a great brother and a good marker developmentally. Bio medically we have been CF/GF since May 06; he is on vitamin supplements, enzymes and gut healing supplements. He has bowel problems that cause constipation; he has yeast bugs that we have trouble with probably due to his bowel problems. We are on a journey that will last a long time, but that will enable Edward to be the boy he was and should be. Read my story coming soon to Stories of Hope on the Treating Autism web site |
Sally George | Secretary |
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Steve Lodge | IT & Communications |
| Steve lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire with his wife Joanne and their children, Callum aged 6 who has severe Autism and is non-verbal along with Ellie-Mae aged 3 (NT). Steve is a freelance Management Consultant working in Business and IT sectors. He offers support to Callum was diagnosed at the age of 4.5 years. Interventions began with the GFCF diet and fish oils in June 2003 followed shortly by an intensive, home-based Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) programme. Callum saw Dr Anju Usman in Chicago, USA in Feb 2005 and commenced a targeted treatment plan to address the issues identified which include Supplements, Fish Oils, Diets, Enzymes, Chelation, Methylcobalamin injections. |
Stephanie Scott | Legal & Fundraising |
| Stephanie lives in Stephanie has a Juris Doctor and worked as a lawyer before her son was born. She now devotes herself to caring for her family and monitoring developments in autism research and treatments. Her son showed hyperactivity and speech delay from the age of one. He was diagnosed with autism in December 2004. Their daughter exhibited less dramatic social delays and sensory issues by the age of 18 months, including reduced eye contact and joint attention, nonproductive play, reduced awareness of others' emotions, postural insecurity and tactile defensiveness. As yet the daughter has no diagnosis. Both children receive speech, play and sensory integration therapies and both present celiac-like symptoms. Testing revealed numerous vitamin and mineral deficiencies, food intolerances, overgrowths of intestinal pathogens and extremely high levels of lead in both children.
Stephanie and her husband implemented a medically supervised course of biomedical treatment encompassing diet and supplementation. The children have made excellent progress and their son joined the reception class at a mainstream primary school this Autumn. |
The Extended Team
The Trustees wish to acknowledge the help and support of the many volunteers and members of the Action Groups:
Vicky, Sharon, Stephanie, Natasa , Mel , Mark, Kay, Gail, Margaret, Chris, Anne-Marie, Anita, Tom, Sara, Nicky, Helen, Pamela, Diana and Dave! |