Wednesday, March 24, 2010

MAPS Therapy

I discovered M.A.P.S after it was mentioned on one of the yahoo support groups I belong to.
After contacting the centre in Canada they told us that they had not only treated a boy with Lissencephaly but they were coming to Sydney for the first time the following week.
Well I believe in signs and things happening for a reason and I couldn't ignore this sign!
So the following week there we were in a house in Liverpool learning about MAPS.

A lovely lady who started doing MAPS on her daughter 5 months ago paid for Claudie and Kim to come over to Australia as she has been having such amazing results with it.
She then paid for the boot camp training but invited other families along free of charge.
There were maybe 8 families at the boot camp. Most of them had children with Autism and one little boy had Cerebral Palsy.
All of them were impressed with MAPS and wanted to try it on their children.

We met with Claudie and Kim for an assessment with Billee and they showed us the different exercises and gave us their opinion on what improvements we might expect to see after doing their programme.
They also asked that we stop any other therapy Billee is currently doing for 6 months.

Therefore we are stopping ABR and AIAHP for the next 6 months so that we are able to give MAPS the best possible shot we can.

I will explain in much more detail as I go forward what is involved in MAPS.
Basically MAPS is a programme that works on increasing seratonin and dophamin levels in the brain which then helps to create new neuron pathways and cell migration.
To be honest at the moment I'm not even going to share this with anyone else but as time goes on I will.

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