by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 31, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Chelation, Diets, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Speech and Language
Emily Willingham, a Forbes blogger who frequently waxes less-than-sympathetic in her stories concerning autism, recently posted her Five Scariest ‘Treatments’. While I do not disagree with some of her picks, I take issue with the tone of the blog and the...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 26, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Speech and Language
Applied Behavioral Analysis is the science of understanding and molding human behaviors. Dr. I. Lovaas utilized Skinner-era techniques in the latter half of the 20th century to produce proven results in selected ASD patients. Dr. D. Granpeesheh authored a...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 20, 2013 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Diagnosis, Patient experiences, Speech and Language
A recent headline offered, “Is the autism ‘epidemic’ over?” How about this claim, “US outpacing U.K. in autism rates”? Another one, a bit less dramatic, “Autism diagnoses level off in Britain after five-fold surge during the...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 14, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Patient experiences, Reversing autism
One of my primary purposes for publishing these stories each week is to be sure that interested readers have access to the most up-to-date and accurate information about the disorder that is presently called autism, including alternative points-of-view. If a parent...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 5, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Chelation, Conferences, Diets, HBOT for ASD, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Reversing autism
Saturday Allergies in Special Needs Children Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet – Introduction to Allergies in Special Needs Children With a less-than-healthy intestine, there is loss of tight cellular junctions, allowing toxins and food proteins to be exposed to blood,...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 4, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Conferences, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Reversing autism
Friday Case assessment and clinical pearls were today’s topics. The knowledge presented is based on treatment of other patients and is an important part of our education, since so little experience has been documented in the conventional literature. This is a...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 3, 2013 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Conferences, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Special Therapies
Medicine is in constant flux. Novel theories challenge the status quo and possible new treatments are discovered every day. In order to perform at the highest level, doctors, more than perhaps any other profession, must remain current about all the newest information...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Sep 29, 2013 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Chelation, HBOT for ASD, Patient experiences, Yeast - Fungus
Autism is a diagnosis that sometimes leads to signs and symptoms so severe in affected children that it drives parents to risk significant resources in the hope of getting relief. Investment in money, time, and energy needs to be balanced with other proven treatments...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Sep 23, 2013 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Diets, Patient experiences, Reversing autism
With the epidemic number of individuals who are diagnosed as having Autism Spectrum disorder, why is it taking so long for families and patients to get real medical relief? It seems as if cancer, diabetes, heart disease and HIV have new information and ‘cures’...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Sep 14, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Special Skills, Speech and Language
I object to the term ‘low functioning’, as in “Billy has low-functioning autism.” After all, we don’t say that about neuro-typical individuals whose abilities may limit their options. And, “high-functioning” can be just as...