MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS, BIOMEDICAL PROTOCALS
& THERAPEUTIC SERVICE RESOURCES

The purpose of this page is to link you to other pivotal information resources on existing and emerging biological research into medical tests and treatments as well as nutritional and alternative health supports for children with a history of late on-set Autism, features of Childhood Disintegrative Disorder or other forms of Autism that seem to have symptoms related to biological conditions beyond Autism's innate disorders of the central nervous system. There are U.S.A. national contacts and a several of Oregon's local contacts, as a sample of what you may easily find once you connect your own regions Autism community network. If you live in areas of Oregon that are far from these providers, still call them, because they can connect you to peers in other cities around Oregon. This is a list to give you a stable starting place.

NOTICE: THRESHOLD IS NOT A MEDICAL PROVIDER AND THEREFORE, THESE ARE ALL INFORMATION REFERRALS, AND ARE NOT PRESCRIPTIVE IN NATURE.

Families should ALWAYS see your child's medical doctor to discuss any and all forms of medical testing and interventions, and your doctor, a registered dietician or alternative health care provider BEFORE using any and all suppliments or special and/or restrictive diets for children/adults with Autism and/or other health conditions. ALWAYS. These providers may not agree with each other or your choices, but you need to keep your primary provider informed, in case the combination of protocals you may try might have side effects or drug interaction risks.

AUTISM RESEARCH CENTERS:

Resources listed here will take you to the research centers around the nation with which they are affiliated too. Families may write or email these agencies for written information. But they do NOT generally want or take or return family phone calls for individual questions and answers.

A) PUBLIC

National Institute of Health (NIH)/Mental Health (NIMH) Autism Division
Contact: Dr. Maria Bristol-Powers
Formerly Early Childhood Director/UNC/Division TEACCH
Phone: 301-443-4513
Email: nimhinfo@nih.gov
Web: www.nimh.nih.gov

Another source of information on sensory resources is
www.SensoryResources.com

Kirkman Sales
Specialized Nurtritional Suppliments formulated for children and adults with Autism. Recommended to THRESHOLD by the Autism Research Institute. Many (but not all) families report great success in improving their children's health and functioning within a short time. Sharone says: "HAVE THE WHOLE FAMILY TRY THE COD LIVER OIL DAILY!" You may be surprised how well you ALL may begin to feel and function better). It is a risk-free, affordable and well-known neurological health support for people with and without auto-immune problems.
Phone: 800-245-8282
Email: kirkman@portweb.com FAX: 1-503-682-0838
Web: www.kirkmanlabs.com

N.E.E.D.S.
Pharmacy Grade, Allergy Free, Singular Vitamin Suppliments & Minerals for more accurate trails of individual elements such as B-6 (P5P) and Magnesium before using combinations suppliments, as recommended to THRESHOLD by the Autism Research Institute. Many (but not all) families report great success in improving their children's well-being and state of mind within a short time wite affordable and safe nutritional suppliments.
Phone: 800-634-1380
FAX: 800-295-NEED

NOTICE: It is important that families understand that nutritional diets and suppliments do not offer any kind of scientifically proven cures for Autism, particularly not any evidence that can be applied in any one case. Instead, they have show to be effective in improving many children's biological health and neurological functioning, which can support more optimum development. Such alternative approaches have shown to provide positive results for about 50% in children with Autism in replicated scientific studies. This warrants ongoing study, to determine if and how certain physical conditions correlate to children having/not having Autism, and whether the changes of Autism are the source of those conditions or whether those conditions contribute to Autism. The centers above will provide you with up-to-date tracking and review of such data.

However, it is also important to urge parents to not delay beginning early-as-possible and more intensive education intervention (20-40 hours a week across home-school-daycare providers.) This is the area of intervention with proven long term results for people with Autism, across the spectrum, regardless of the cause of their Autism. We know very well, the first impulse of a loving parent with resources is to put all your emotional eggs and dollars in the biomedical-cure-it-basket. Just try to understand and accept that educational Autism intervention will be both necessary and important regardless of the cause of your child's Autism, or the outcomes of even the best biomedical trials of treatment--because if your child is showing significant learning delays now, then that need is here now, and you can do something proven to help now. We continually see parents putting all their hopes in one narrow treatment basket that may show immediate, but less pivotal, symptomatic improvements. Yet this means that they miss out on the significant life span progress that is possible with well-established early Autism educational approaches, which an be very affordable and very effective, with little risk of failure or harm. Please, put some of your first eggs into a life span educational approach basket first. You will not be dissappointed. The bonus is that you will soon have solid objective baseline data for sound biomedical trials. This is a guide suggestion, based on research and practice.