Sorry to take so long getting you our HBOT Log. We have been following your recommendations, and the results have been amazing!
As for the obvious benefits so far, the best part is what other people, especially people who didn’t know about the chamber at all have been mentioning. We’ve seen an increase in spontaneous reciprocal communication. Her receptive language skills and comprehension of commands and requests has literally shot through the roof. It’s actually day to day that we see improvement. Her speech (actual articulation – the apraxia) has not improved much at this point, but she has been coming out with more spontaneous coherent observations occasionally, too. You may laugh at this next one, but …she’s eating new foods, like one to three new things each week. Linds is the classical child with Autism regarding her food; she went from eating ANYTHING when she was a toddler, to eating a variety of foods you could write down on a saltine cracker. She insisted on black beans for dinner every night for about four and a half years. Over the last 13 months, she has gone back to eating things like lima beans, green beans, asparagus, peas, almost any fruit, corn (not so exciting), absolutely any meat I put in front of her, baked potatoes (again, not much to brag on), cereal with “milk”, and the list goes on. It’s all so exciting to me! Her syntax does seem to be improving also, which has been a nightmare ever since she started talking again. She used to (I mean, just a month ago) look at the photo card her SLP has of a woman mopping, and says “floor mop”. Now she says, “She is mopping floor.” She also shows signs of her yeast improving, which is so exciting, seeing how many years we’ve been fighting it.
So, once again, I have to thank you for everything! Take care, and I’ll speak to you soon.