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Library Item Name:

Treating Matthew's autism with home-based therapy 		   
Summary Statement:

Alderson founded IMTI, a program that integrates treatments in a three-part approach: biological (a special diet that includes supplements), behavioural and cognitive education and family and therapist "attitudinal training".

The six-phase IMTI program begins with free-play and relationship building and ends with transitioning the child to school.

Alderson identifies a "treatment map" individualized to each child's specific needs that meets the goals of the child's parents. Matthew is in pre-phase three, which introduces curriculum and table work.

"We do therapy that teaches Matthew how to act and think differently, how to talk and how to learn," Alderson said last week, after a monthly consultation with the Andersons and their therapy volunteers. "Then through family attitudinal fitness we develop coping strategies to help parents live a decent life and be at peace with what's happening as much as they can...
Tags:

IMTI
Submission Date:

04/15/2008by: shannonj
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