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For the Communities of Ball Ground, Canton, Holly Springs, Waleska and Woodstock May/June 2009
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Brain Balance
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18 Cherokee LIVING Ma/Jun 2009
Initially, Patty and Paul Iaelice had little reason to believethat the Brain Balance Center they had seen advertisedcould help their severely physically, emotionally and aca-demically delayed 8-year-old son. Nothing else had. Tens o thousands o dollars, countless doctor visits, testing, specialed, IEP and their own diligence had not helped Angelo tothrive. “He weighed barely 40 pounds, he couldn’t read ortalk coherently, and he was in a constant state o rage. Theadvertisements or Brain Balance sounded too good to betrue, but we had to try it. It was tearing our amily apart,and we had no other options,” Patty explains.Young Angelo’s lie was a struggle rom the beginning.Born 10 weeks early and weighing under 3 pounds,Angelo was slow to walk or speak while his raternaltwin, Benito, progressed normally. “At 2, he spoke lessthan a dozen words. And despite speech, occupationaland physical therapy, special education, and our con-stant attention, he made little progress and had becomea sullen and disturbed child. When he turned 8, he barely weighed 40 pounds, he was atigued all the time andcould read only a dozen words. Yet, none o the doctorswe took him to seemed particularly concerned or oeredus any help,” Paul recounts. “Brain Balance soundedtoo good to be true, but it made sense, and we had todo something.”“When I met Angelo late last year, I knew that we could helphim,” afrms Dr. Peter Scire, executive director o the localBrain Balance Centers. “He was a child with severe learn-ing delays compounded by several years o little academic
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