Spectrum Perspectives

Dr. Neuenschwander Trailer- "65-70% of people with autism have Auto Immune Brain Inflammation".

Dr. James Neuenschwander is a former surgeon who now practices Integrative Medicine for kids with Autism. He looks at root causes to disease and found that 65-70% of people with Autism have Auto Immune Brain Inflammation, caused by toxicity in their environment. Watch the full episode to hear how to treat it.

Dr. Anju Usman-"There's no such thing as a genetic epidemic". Full Episode

Dr. Singh is director and owner of True Health Medical Center and Pure Compounding Pharmacy in Naperville, Illinois. After her own daughter died from a peanut allergy, Dr. Singh began looking at root causes to disease, which led to working with many autistic patients. She discusses excitation in the brain, inflammation, PANDAS, and the gut/brain connection. She also explains how Folate deficiency can cause seizures, and how to treat it. She is a member of Med-Maps- a group of professionals who offer a Comprehensive Education & Fellowship to Medical Professionals for the care of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and related chronic complex conditions. MedMaps.org. You can watch the video version on Robbie's World channel on YouTube.

Dr. Anju Usman Trailer "There's no such thing as a genetic epidemic"

After Dr. Usman's own 3 children had health issues, she moved over into Biomedical medicine to look at root causes to illness, and began seeing many autistic patients. The things she has learned can help reduce seizures and reduce anxiety and improve language. Watch the full episode on this channel.

Dr. Elizabeth Torres-Studies Apraxia & dysregulation at Sensory Motor Integration Lab & Rutgers University

Dr. Torres leads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab at Rutgers University. Originally starting with robotics studying motor control in athletes, she moved on to working with autistic individuals studying their execution of movement, vestibular and proprioception. She says most times they have an almost 2 second delay in sensory processing, but we need to presume competence and give them time to perform a task. She has monitored their dysregulation and found that most of the time they are in fight or flight mode and have symptoms of someone with chronic pain. Her work helps them to become regulated so they can Spell to Communicate and the goal is to help them become independent. You can view the video version on Robbie's World channel on YouTube.

Dr. Elizabeth Torres Trailer- Studies Apraxia & disregulation at Sensory Motor Integration Lab & Rutgers University

Dr. Torres heads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab at Rutgers University. She studies people with autism and their Apraxia and disregulation, which then helps them with Spelling to Communicate. This is the short trailer. Learn more in the full episode here on this channel. 

Susan Daniel-Neuro-Developmental Optometrist helping Spellers says "80% of patients have double vision".

Yes it is possible to do an eye exam on a non-speaking autistic child! Susan Daniel specializes in this type of Optometry. She works alongside Dawnmarie Gaivin of the Spellers method and who appeared in the Spellers Movie. She says that 80% of her patients have an "eye turn" and double vision which she helps to correct. Susan helps Spellers see better which enables them to spell and to communicate. You can view the video version on Robbie's World channel on YouTube.

Susan Daniel Trailer- Neuro-Developmental Optometrist helping Spellers says "80% of patients have double vision."

Susan works with mostly non-speaking autistic patients who also use the Spellers method to communicate. She says 80% of them have an "eye turn" and double vision. Once she works with them to correct it, it helps them see their spelling boards better enabling them to communicate.

Dana Johnson-OT & Spellers Method Creator explains Apraxia and disregulation that she never learned in OT School.

Dana Johnson is an OT (Occupational Therapist) who also helped create the Spellers Method with Dawnmarie Gaivin of the Spellers Movie. The method teaches non-speaking students to communicate using spelling. She discusses Apraxia, Proprioception, and the brain-body disconnect in many with autism, which is why she incorporates motor activities to help. She also talks about spellers being disregulated and how actions which are typically seen as "behaviors" are not intentional. She can be reached through their website Spellers.com

Dana Johnson Trailer- OT & Spellers Method Creator explains Apraxia and disregulation that she never learned in OT school.

Dana Johnson is an Occupational Therapist who helped create the Spellers Method which teaches autistic kids to communicate. She incorporates movement and vision to help them spell. Through working with spellers she has learned how spellers are affected by apraxia and how movement needs to be incorporated. These are things they never her taught in school to become an OT.

Elizabeth Vosseller-SLP & S2C Creator "For 19 years of my career I got it wrong." Full Episode

Between 30-40% of people with autism spectrum disorder are non-speaking or minimally speaking, meaning they don't speak at all or speak fewer than 30 words. Spelling to Communicate (S2C) is a revolutionary method that teaches non-speaking people to communicate using a stencil board helping them to finally find their voice. In this episode you'll meet Elizabeth Vosseller, aka "EV", the founder of S2C. She discusses the difference between being "non-speaking", "minimally speaking" and "unreliably speaking", and how the reason many cannot speak is due to "Apraxia" which is a motor planning issue, not a cognitive issue. She discussed the 4 pillars of her foundation I-ASC, the International Association for Spelling as Communication, which are: 1) Training 2) Education 3) Advocacy and 4) Research, which will help bring S2C to the main stream making it available to be taught in schools. You can watch the video version on Robbie's World channel on YouTube..