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Hope For Autism - The Concept Of Symptom Free

I first developed the concept of becoming featured on the cover of USA today. My
symptom-free of disability when I was articles are recommended by The American
working on my Career Development Award Speech & Hearing Association as
from The National Institutes of Health. examples of Best Practices.
As a brain scientist working for the most Changing the Brain
rigorous medical research facility in the All of these populations have symptoms in
world, I discovered that many disorders attention, memory, listening, reading,
thought to be due to permanent brain writing or speaking. At the time of our
malfunction could actually be improved to research in stuttering for example, this
a symptom-free status. disorder was thought to be a chronic life
Brain Based Communication Disorders long disability. Therapy was organized
At this time, many years before my own around support groups to manage living
autistic son, Whitney was born, I was with the problem or therapy to
studying 4 populations: desensitize you so you did not feel as
1.Preschool Children With Language bad when you stuttered. I headed a
Disorders research team working on helping
My staff and I evaluated 600 Head Start stutterers become symptom free which
children per year for 12 years and resulted in changing how therapists view
provided a multiple therapy approach to stuttering world wide. As a result, I
help children become ready for school. began to see other populations of the
Our average Headstart child was 2 years communication-impaired differently and
behind and was within normal range after started setting goals for symptom free
20 sessions. with all of my patient groups. From this
2.School Age Speech-Language impaired research we learned how to make step by
Children step plans to change the brain to reduce
We evaluated thousands of children as an or eliminate symptoms.
outreach program to private schools and Turning Disability to Ability
offered hospital based outpatient We found that the fastest way to reach a
treatment for children who were having symptom free goal is to evaluate and
trouble at school due to language train positive behaviors. With stutterers
processing disorders. for example, instead of working on
3.Stutterers getting the stuttering to stop, we worked
I treated thousands of stutterers on teaching the behaviors that would
world-wide and wrote Stutter-Free Speech compete with stuttering and replace the
(Charles Merrill Publishers), which lead behavior. Now we do that with the
to awards from The White House and an symptoms of autism. We teach the
Oprah interview. attention, memory and communication
4.Brain Damaged Hospital Patients skills that compete with autism to
I provided rehabilitation team services replace the symptoms. As a result, we are
to in-patients and out-patients with able to turn severe disability into life
brain injuries and strokes. My work was long ability.
honored by many federal agencies, and




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