My Son Is Mostly Nonverbal And Just Turned Five. Any Suggestions Out There On A Vitamin That Has Improved Speech In Your Child?
No magic pills are available yet. Too bad. That would be so much easier than these effective treatments to improve speech in our kids.
1. Biomedical treatments: see Defeat Autism Now webpage to find a practioner.
2. Applied Behavior Analysis
3. Neurotherapy
4. A good speech therapist.
Nope...speech therapy is the way to go. Pills don't fix everything. It's work.
I am starting Methyl b12, but look into what other supplements to take with it, I read that in combination with other things it may have different results. Good luck
Supplements that led to dramatic speech improvements for my DD literally within days: Behavior Balance DMG, acetyl-l-carnitine, and Coenzyme Q10. Jury's still out on the methyl B12 shots since we just started the active ones a week ago, but DD does seem a bit chattier. No changes for my DD when I increased the dosage of omega 3's but some people swear by that. I'd like to try n-acetyl-cysteine but our biomed dr. said that NAC can worsen yeast so he wants to do some anti-yeast treatments before adding NAC. We can't make any changes, however, until DD finishes the mB12 study she's in.
My four year old just babbled a few, mostly unintelligible words, and I SO wanted him to talk. We invested in a speech therapist who visited and worked with him for a couple hours a week. I was overjoyed at his progress, and by the time he was five he was stringing sentences together using words I could understand.
He's 13 now, and I spend lots of my energy patiently waiting for him to finish a long story (in precise chronological order) that has little to do with the point he was trying to make.
As usual, Jill is spot on - it will take hard work, but a good multivitamin won't hurt.
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