Chloe is 8 years old. After a difficult pregnancy she was delivered by elective caesarean section and was found to have a heart murmur. Chloe had several hospital admissions and cardiac surgery for a V.S.D. was successfully performed at 16 weeks of age.

She reached her milestones and was a very happy baby up to the age of 16 months.

Her personality changed, her sunny smile vanished and soon afterwards she was diagnosed with – Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Chloe made very little progress developmentally and the epilepsy had an enormous impact on her speech and language skills and general learning.

It was several years and several changes in medication before her seizures decreased (but did not cease) and slow improvements were made. However, Chloe remained poorly co-ordinated with severe delay in receptive and expressive language. Her sleep pattern was very poor and we were mentally and physically exhausted!!

Chloe spent 3 years in a language unit, where her confidence improved, but she did not make the progress we had hoped for. After much soul searching Chloe started G Therapy in August 1999.

The change in her sleep pattern was INSTANTANEOUS. She slept through the night and has continued to do so ever since. For this improvement alone we were DELIGHTED. NO medication has ever done this (and the doctors had tried several).

Her expressive language has improved significantly, so has her receptive language, but to a lesser degree.

Chloe now listens to conversations and uses language appropriately (most of the time). It is worth noting that Chloe has received no Speech Therapy since July 1999.

Her observational skills have also shown marked improvements. Her immune system is excellent – she is rarely ill. (It is known that illness is a trigger for seizures and we can only guess that this improvement in her immune system may be contributing to the total seizure control that we now have).

There have been small increases in medication as Chloe has grown, but we believe G Therapy has helped in some way.

Unfortunately at this point we have seen little improvement in Chloe’s learning ability, but remain optimistic for further improvements in time.

We know there is no ‘cure’ for Chloe problems and we have never been lead to believe that there is. What I can say is that G Therapy has had a positive effect upon Chloe.

Jean Rees – Jones
West Sussex
England