Alexander was a normal delivery baby at 39 weeks, weighing 6lbs 13onz. He developed normally up to the age of 19 months when he received the MMR Vaccination. The two days following the vaccine he had a high temperature and was very irritable. In the weeks that followed he lost his appetite, stopped sleeping through the night and slowly lost his speech. He appeared to have regressed.

Many months later we were finally given a diagnosis of autism.

Alexander’s Main Problems were

• Hyperactivity
• Temper Tantrums
• Poor Sleep Pattern
• Abnormal and anti social behaviour
• Poor Eating Habits
• Poor concentration and Eye contact
• No reading or writing skills
• Learning Delay
• Limited Speech

At the time of starting G Therapy Alex had received 3 years speech therapy without any signs of progress and a course of Light & Sound Therapy which was successful and gave him a start with his speech.

After starting the therapy we noticed within the first two weeks that he began to sleep throughout the night. This was amazing, as Alex had on average been waking 13 times each night and his daddy and I were exhausted. He also seemed to be paying more attention to activities and giving better eye contact.

As the weeks of therapy went by we saw his concentration span increase and his understanding start to improve, by the time of his 6th birthday in the November he understood it was his birthday and opened his presents without help. This being the first year he had taken an interest in them.

By the time he had been on the therapy for 6 months he had expanded his language and was learning to spell out loud little words – ‘dog’, ‘pig’, ‘hat’ etc.

He had started taking an interest in playing football with his older brother and daddy and took an interest helping me with small jobs around the house. He would unpack the supermarket shopping and put the items away in the correct place.

Whilst he remained quite hyperactive during the first 6-9 months of therapy, he was certainly calming down to the extent that he took part in the school play at Christmas and sat quietly on the floor,[such a difference to the previous year when he had to be restrained all the time on his teachers knee].

At the time of writing this – Alex has completed 2 years on the therapy and I can honestly say ‘hand on heart’ that we have a different boy to the one Dr Oswal first saw in 1998.

Whilst Alexander still attends a unit for autistic children based within a moderate learning difficulties special school, he has been attending a mainstream school for one day each week and has coped very well.

So many things have improved. His speech is very good and he can make himself understood, which in turn means we have very few tantrums.

He can read, which has opened the world to him. His computer skills are wonderful. He interacts well with other children and is able to cope with situations which previously had been a nightmare – [getting his hair cut/ Supermarket Shopping/going to the cinema – to name but a few].

G Therapy has certainly made a difference to Alexander’s world and to our family. We know it is not a ‘miracle cure’, Dr Oswal has never lead us to believe that, however, we are all very grateful to Dr Oswal for his care and attention: he is a truly wonderful man.

Patricia Revell
Mother to Alexander and Thomas
Doncaster
England.