Dec 11, 2010

TESTIMONIAL = 5-year old low functioning autistic boy

TESTIMONIAL:
We have a 5-year old low functioning autistic boy. He was marginally verbal, barely aware and totally uninterested of his environment at the beginning of this past summer.

He took Becky's summer camp for 3 months and we've seen amazing changes. Exercising at Becky's school and at home have done much more than building muscles. He has become much more aware of his himself and his environment.
Since Becky does not view special need children as helpless little creatures who need to be taken care of in every aspect of their lives, my son had to learn to take off his own shoes and put it in his cubby. We have noticed that he is much more able to use both of his hands working in unison as a result of the exercises. So now he was able to take off his shoes and put them on himself. It took him a while and he really didn't like it, however, after a couple of weeks he mastered it. All of a sudden he realized that he can do things himself so now he is dressing himself. Talk about making life easier in the mornings.

The small class size helped him relate to his little friends, he started to babble more and make short sentences because he got motivated. Because it is so much fun to play with the exercise equipment we were shocked to see him shoot hoops, climbing and bouncing all on his own. When the environment is fun it pays off to pay attention to it. The results of the summer carried on to his school work, he is drawing better, talks more and his projects are more "together" than they used to be. He is much more aware of his environment, now he actually stops at the stop signs.

I will put my son in Becky's summer school every summer.

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