“Seeing is believing” ~one of our parents who is a producer for a CBS TV news station
Cooper and his mom Gretchen
From Gretchen Walsh, mom of Cooper:
My son Cooper was diagnosed as severely apraxic just after he turned three years old. At the time, he was so frustrated with language that he would bang his head into a wall when we couldn’t understand him! It was the beginning of a rough year. Speech therapy, fish oil supplements and a special needs preschool setting soon followed and all helped Cooper gain some intelligible language. Then a few months after Cooper turned 5, I started reading about NV as part of a nutritional strategy and the healing impact nutrition was having on kids like Cooper. After getting his doctor’s approval, I decided to have Coop try it too. Within days of starting nutritional strategies, Cooper’s clarity and conversation skills improved. He had better eye contact and I also saw him focusing more and getting frustrated less.
His overall attitude and demeanor changed. It’s been a life saver for him and I have the before and after videos that show just how incredible the impact has been.
Here’s our video trail….starting with before Cooper was diagnosed, all the way up to improvements from nutritional strategies that included fish oil and NV Original.
The video that makes me teary every time I watch….as Cooper grunts for cookies (he was barely 3 here). This was before the apraxia diagnoses and I hate myself for trying to get him to say cookies over and over. Sigh.
Cooper after starting fish oil as part of a nutritional strategy and working with an awesome SLP 4 days a week (6 months after diagnoses). He was still 3 here.
Cooper 6 months later. still working with an awesome SLP 4 days a week, in a special needs preschool, and still on fish oil as part of a nutritional strategy, and about a month after we also added a scoop a day of NV which we raised up to 2 scoops a day.
Major improvements in eye contact, focus and conversation skills!
Even more improvements…3 months later (age 4) – Another Failed Skunk Hunt
This video showing an alarming visual and facial stimming behavior Cooper started doing while he was 4 years old.
This video was taken just over a month ago (Coop just turned 5). Hold on to your hats. He’s come a lllooonnnnnggg way 🙂 🙂 🙂
