For those of you living in Canada and seeking more interventions for sensory integration dysfunction, ADHD, or learning disabilities, check out the Wise Choice Educational Services. This practice appears to house many state-of-the-art interventions in one place, with a staff that sounds knowledgeable not only in how to administer these interventions, but what it’s like to parent and teach a child with these disabilities.

The way they state it is that they “look for the root cause of neurocognitive inefficiencies.” David and Suzanne Day, educators with training... more

We put LuLu in a mild hyperbaric oxygen (mHBOT) chamber this spring for 40 one-hour sessions. Why? Because some doctors have researched and are now hypothesizing that HBOT will improve symptoms in autistic individuals, much like it has done in people with cerebral palsy, fetal alcohol syndrome, closed head injuries and stroke. Ok, so, in “parentese” what’s the theory behind the how and why?

Well, first you have to know that autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that, at least in some individuals, has been found to... more

A good friend - adoptive mom - pointed me to an article published in the Pediatrics (the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics) last October about a young man with FAS who was treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The resulting improvements in this young man's cognitive abilities were profound. His verbal scores (including verbal memory) improved, his visual motor processing speeds improved, and impulsivity went down. The patient, a 15-year-old adopted from Russia as a toddler, had been... more

"I think the HBOT is working," my darling hubby said today. Those words made my heart SING!!!!!! LuLu is signed up for 10 sessions is a hyperbaric oxygen chamber (actually it's a mild hyperbaric chamber). It is a soft-sided chamber that holds only 2 people and only pressurizes to 1.3 ATA. It takes the ambient air (as opposed to pure oxygen) and forces it into the chamber in such a way as to make the chamber about 92-95% oxygen. Regular air is around 21% oxygen, depending on how polluted the air is where you live. Increasing the oxygen in the air allows your body to increase the oxygen that enters the blood stream. This, in turn, forces more oxygen into your body's tissues. Tissues... more

I took the plunge yesterday and signed Lulu up for 10 sessions in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (or HBOT as it is referred to) is an emerging intervention for treating a variety of immune disorders and other things. You may have read how they put the surviving miner in West Virginia in a hyperbaric chamber to detoxify his body...that is the basic premise.

Sitting in a chamber for an hour, your body is exposed to oxygen under pressure. This causes more oxygen to enter your bloodstream and cross into your tissues. Wounds heal faster. The oxygen also causes toxins to release and new cells to grow. The oxygenated blood crosses the blood/brain barrier and... more