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I have a sibling with several disabilities. Just recently, I was certified Reiki First Degree. For many of you who are unfamiliar with Reiki I will give you a brief description.

Reiki Balances And Works On Four Levels Of Existence:

A) Physical: The Body & Manifested Plain
B) Emotional: What You Are Feeling
C) Mental: What You Are Allowing Yourself To Think
D) Spiritual: Your Capacity To Love Yourself And Others

Reiki Works On Cause Rather Than Effect Of Dis-Ease:

A) Treats the Dis-Ease rather than the symptoms

Now that my soon to be five year old son with ASD is approaching his birthday, we have been practicing what that is, what a party will look like and some of the related issues of time. A very anxiety filled event for him, birthdays are scary. Teaching a child about the passage of time is hard enough, throw autism into the mix and you just never know what you'll get. Thru our journey into understanding all this, he's found a new favorite question: "How old are you?" Most four/five year olds repond ok to this - it is something most typical kids ask other kids.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WINES AND AUTISM

How it all started...

Two years ago while I was having breakfast with my husband at our local restaurant, a crazy idea dawned on me.
I saw all of these little milk boxes on the tables of customers eating their cereals and I noticed the depressing advertisement of a missing child with his picture and a phone number to contact. Although very depressing to read about another missing child I thought that the concept to help find that child was brilliant. Everybody drinks milk except a few of us for some good reason...

Children with autism arrived at our practice's doorstep before we ever expected to see it. Since my personal practice of homeopathy had already been taking "all comers" I went into the first consultation with a child with autism before really knowing what I was seeing. He had no formal diagnosis and things had only turned sour a few days earlier. It was a young man whose parents had taken him bowling the night of Hallowe'en and had somehow seen a horrible change in him, presumably after that night.

I am becoming increasingly concerned with the state of the “Christian” churches in this country. While the vast majority of them rightfully concern themselves with the message of salvation through God’s son Jesus Christ, aren’t we also called upon as Christians to care for our planet and those that inhabit the earth? Why is it so hard then, to get the message out that we are poisoning our children and our planet? When I speak to Christians about the vaccine issue, I get the same response: “what about Polio?” Unfortunately, they don’t stick around long enough for the answer.

When my child turned three years old, he was accepted into a Special Education Pre-school Program in District 93.

The results of this assessment showed that at three years of age my child was 18 months developmentally.

The IEP team included a Speech Language Pathologist, Occupational Therapist and a Special Education Teacher.

They distributed informational packets for the parents to take home and read.

The team suggested working on these exercise’s at home everyday.

Check us out! www.bridgethegapwi.org

I used to tell my employees you have two choices. You can either laugh or you can cry. Nothing around here is worth crying about so find a way to laugh at the situation. This is not a funny topic folks people are chemically castrating young men and have urged me to do so... Check out this article.... http://tinyurl.com/nm6qas

Welcome Aboard:-)
You'll be happy to know many of your fellow crew members have been aboard for years and seen some of the most likely storms you'll see as this boat plies the rough waters of ASD. Our intended destination is the port of Recovery. Our sister ships (the Autism Collaboration, links on the "home" page) are also crewed by parents like yourselves. Best of Luck!