All that Jazz!!

Today, I am starting Music Therapy. This is a new and exciting therapy that has the purpose of regulating frequencies in the ear and the brain that need to be balanced to understand sounds better.

We hope this therapy will help me to improve my verbal communication. We have done AIT in the past, which is another form of Audio Therapy but at this moment my doctor thinks it will be good to do this therapy and expect better results.

In Music Therapy, I listen to different CD's with special music using special earphones, for 30 mins, two times a day. I enjoy listening to the music and find some parts of it, very funny.

I want to say THANK YOU to Ms. Jennifer, Adam's mom who sent me the CD's and also GRACIAS to Abuita who gave me the earphones for my birthday!!!

I listen while I am in the car, and also in my house, preferably while using my swing.

This therapy is supposed to last several months so I am trying to enjoy every minute of it!!

Clear aaaalllllll blockages!!!

Since Autism is still a mystery for the doctors and they don't yet know the cause or the cure, since June 2004 (4.9 yrs old), we are following a biomedical treatment based on Oriental Medicine. It consists of rebalancing and fixing the frequencies in my body to replenish minerals and get rid of all the toxicity that my body can't fight by himself.

In this treatment I really live the life of a king: I get really nice massages two times a day with the purpose of clearing all blockages that are in my body.

Also, once a week, Papá gives me a very warm bath with detoxifying clays. What you see in the bathtub is the residue of the clay after I get my weekly baths.

I also take minerals and yeast fighters that support my body through all this process.


So far, this treatment has helped me to understand things a lot better and I have gotten very good at following instructions. Hopefully, it will continue helping me with not only my receptive but also my expressive language, and this way I fight the Autism that affects me.

My doctor, Theresa, is in this picture with me. She is very sweet and I have fun every time I visit her.

Home Therapy

Since a little before I turned 2 years old (August 2001), I have been receiving Verbal Behavior Therapy.

First, it was with Children Psychology Assoc. Mamá took me there every day for 2 hours and we practiced repeating sounds and playing while Mamá watched me through TV monitors in another room. I had two or three different therapists there and I remember Maggie with lots of love.

Then, Mamá thought it was better to have the therapists coming to our house and we started doing that. I really liked that better because we got to play with all the fun toys I had in my room. Marta was my therapist at that time and I loved her very much.

When we moved to our new house I continued with the therapies at home, everyday after school, for two hours. It is a lot of work but they really help me to learn new things like make puzzles, sort objects and pictures, follow different instructions and lately I have been learning how to write, even my name!. Trisha, Tamika, Sarah and Devoni have been my favorite therapists and they all have one thing in common: they were very nice and they love me very much.

Mamá is very happy that all these people have come into our lifes and we are all very thankful for how nice they have always been to us.

This is Dash

This is Dash, our puppy. He is a black labrador retriever and is only 6 months old. Papa is training him to be my service dog when he grows up. He needs to have an intensive training to learn how to help me in situations of danger like crossing the streets or stopping me if I decide to start running away. He will also help me with my socialization skills since he is a very friendly dog.
He already has an instict to protect me and he comes running to see me everytime he hears me crying. He also loves to be around me and we play together a lot.

Classes start tomorrow!!

Classes start tomorrow and I am going to a new school. It is closer to where I live, so I was assigned to go there. It is a very nice school and I think I am going to love it. I am going to Kindergarten and the room is very beautiful. The 3 of Hearts Foundation http://3ofhearts.org/ even donated $1,000 for materials and supplies. I will post pictures of it later.