Andrew Talks For the First
Time
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Andrew (pictured above) is seven
years old and he lives with 'non-verbal'
autism.
His parents Denise and Phil have tried everything available to help
him, from
diets to hair dialysis to listening programs and vitamins and all
with either
no or very little benefit. The Staten Island couple were at their
wits end and
thought they had exhausted all of the hundreds of available
avenues.
Phil and Denise are both members of
the Autism Speaks foundation, so they were
already familiar and active with many different concepts. One day
Phil, the director
of a successful Stock Market firm in Wall Street, happened to meet
visitors John
and Ryan from Rick Collingwood's company Mind Motivations. They
both sat with
Phil for an hour or so in the middle of the Stock Exchange telling
him about the work
that Rick had been doing with Autism via his sleep stories and
special music combination.
Phil was captivated by some of the ideas and asked for some copies
of Ricks Childrens
Series, "Sleep Story" CDs that had been receiving at lot of
anectodotal reports about
helping Autistic children focus and communicate more
effectively.
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After receiving the CDs in the
mail, Phil began to use them with his son every
night as a bed time story. About a month later the couple were
completely
amazed and somewhat bewildered when Andrew began talking for the
first time.
The next change they noticed was that Andrew became more social and
loving
towards people around him - especially his other cousins with whom
he was
usually shy and reclusive. He began to keenly anticipate seeing
them, whereas
previously any interaction with them was something he simply did
not want to do.
Then he started hugging them and the other people around him - and
this was
nothing short of a miracle as he had never showed this type of
affection before.
Phil and Denise also noticed that
Andrew was sleeping better and not waking up
during the night all the time; he also became more calm during the
day and his
attention span and general focus has heightened significantly.
Then Andrew began talking. Wow! For
a child who had never spoken before this
was nothing short of incredible. He started by simply repeating
words that were
said to him from people around him. Soon after that he became
responsive to
visual pictures and their meanings.
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Denise would show Andrew a picture
of a cow and ask...
"What sound does this
make?"
and Andrew would reply with a smile
on his face and say
"the cow goes Mooo…"
According to Denise: "I
am over the moon, Andrew is now communicating
for the first time and all our lives are just so much
better."
Even Andrew's speech
therapist was amazed at the results he was
achieving and he saw a definite improvement in his
communication levels.
Andrew's teachers, many other
parents of the children at his school, and
other family members were completely awe struck. They just couldn't
believe
the difference in him. It was a like a butterfly had come out of
it's cocoon.
Denise and Phil had not been
expecting such a dramatic result from the CDs
and said that Andrew's improvements couldn't be contributed to
anything except
playing a CD every night. It was the only thing they had done
differently for the
past couple of months. Even now, 3 months later, Andrew is still
using the CDs
and improving everyday. His parents are forever thankful and his
other little
cousins are extremely happy that Andrew is now talking and playing
with them.
According to Denise, she even
listens to the CD her self with Andrew.
"I also fall asleep
listening to the CD, and I even know all the words
that are on it. It just makes both of us fall asleep pretty much
straight away."
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