Trying to get some normality . . .

Well, to put it shortly, Ben is Gluten Free, Casein Free again, and we're just trying to keep him stable. His OT at school was concerned that we were unstabilizing his progress by messing around with his diet and now he was harder to work with and more uncooperative than he was before the holiday break. She wanted us to put him back the way he was, and so we have. He's been on a rampage lately, messing up the playroom by throwing things on the floor, and so I'm in a process of reorganizing it to make that more difficult. He threw the hamster cage on the floor one to many times and finally cracked it, so I had to move it out of the play room and now Katherine's hamsters are living on the kitchen counter. Ben is getting taller and stronger, and can reach up onto almost all of our kitchen counters without help. I can see how his autistic behaviors are going to intensify, if for no other reason than because he's growing up. On the bright side, Rob and I are thinking about chelation again, with the NDF Plus, and possible DMSA. We also have an appointment with a Autism Disorder consultant from Hillborough on Thursday, and we're hoping to put it all together and have her help us figure out what we should be doing to help Ben. I think she focuses on theraputic intervention, like Verbal Behaviour and ABA therapy, and will help us get started in these areas. I am looking forward to the upcoming autism conference here in Chapel Hill in a couple of weeks. Kathy will be here for that.