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b eizab cik, M.ed.
 A Gndbaking Pgam cidn wiNgia Did
26 North fultoN lIvING spmb/ob 2008
The moment arrives. She says it’s time to go to the hospi-tal, NOW! You snatch up the careully pre-packed suitcase,umble to nd the car keys, help her maneuver into the car.Hours later, you stand weak-kneed in the delivery room,cradling a tiny person whose eet are the most beautiulthing you’ve ever seen. And so the dream begins. The dreamthat every ather, every mother, has or their children.But what i you are told a ew years down the road that yourchild is not developing normally? A slow progression o language skills, an avoidance o eye contact—you witnessthese things, but you are still foored when the word autismdrops out o the doctor’s mouth, like a bubble released intothe air that foats away, carrying your dreams with it.You are not alone. Each day, hundreds o American childrenare diagnosed with autism, Asperger’s, Tourette’s, attention-decit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), dyslexia, processingdisorders and other learning disabilities. For many parents,the most rustrating aspect o hearing such a diagnosis islearning that treatment options are oten limited.Or so it used to be.Unprecedented advances in brain research during the lasttwo decades have revealed startling truths about neurobe-havioral/developmental childhood disorders. Researchersnow know what is going on in a child’s brain, and this knowl-edge is revolutionizing treatment.
Inside a Child’s Brain
“We now know that the most accurate diagnosis or thesechildren is actually Functional Disconnection Syndromeor FDS,” says Dr. Peter Scire, board-eligible chiropracticneurologist and executive director o the Brain BalanceCenter in Suwanee. “The latest unctional MRI brainresearch shows in FDS there is a unctional disconnectionbetween the two hemispheres o the brain. Basically, thehemispheres are unable to share inormation in synchrony,
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