Due to technicalities in the FDA's regulations, you might not be aware of these potential health benefits and alternative applications for progesterone.
I agree with Dr. Mercola's position on progesterone being administered on the gums.
However, when it comes to the banning of electrical shock devices for SIB's - which for those who don't know is self injury behaviors that nonverbal children of autism often have because they cannot communicate verbally - I 100% disagree with the use of electrical shock devices for these children.
Especially with what happened in Boston Massachusetts where journalists broke multiple stories of nonverbal children being given electric shock treatment to control them and manipulate them to do what staff wanted.
The children who received these treatments lost all autonomy because they had no verbal acuity and that is unacceptable.
And to make it absolutely clear here, nonverbal children's behaviors are communication because they're trying to communicate but they don't have the ability to verbally communicate ... yet.
So again the focus needs to be on verbiage and not on electrical shock treatments or antipsychotics drugs or anything else we think we're gonna give them to get them to "stop moving" and to stop the behaviors.
The behaviors ARE their communication.
If electrical shock treatment and antipsychotic drugs is the best we can do with these children of autism, then there is indeed something seriously wrong with our medical system.
The one thing that these children need more than anything else is the ability to speak - whether it's to learn to sign, to use a device to speak, or to have speech every single day when they're at school. These steps will help them in the journey of communicating which then will reduce their SIB's.
As a sidenote, you might be surprised to learn that speech is not the top priority for nonverbal autistic children in most public schools.
I agree with Dr. Mercola's position on progesterone being administered on the gums.
However, when it comes to the banning of electrical shock devices for SIB's - which for those who don't know is self injury behaviors that nonverbal children of autism often have because they cannot communicate verbally - I 100% disagree with the use of electrical shock devices for these children.
Especially with what happened in Boston Massachusetts where journalists broke multiple stories of nonverbal children being given electric shock treatment to control them and manipulate them to do what staff wanted.
The children who received these treatments lost all autonomy because they had no verbal acuity and that is unacceptable.
And to make it absolutely clear here, nonverbal children's behaviors are communication because they're trying to communicate but they don't have the ability to verbally communicate ... yet.
So again the focus needs to be on verbiage and not on electrical shock treatments or antipsychotics drugs or anything else we think we're gonna give them to get them to "stop moving" and to stop the behaviors.
The behaviors ARE their communication.
If electrical shock treatment and antipsychotic drugs is the best we can do with these children of autism, then there is indeed something seriously wrong with our medical system.
The one thing that these children need more than anything else is the ability to speak - whether it's to learn to sign, to use a device to speak, or to have speech every single day when they're at school. These steps will help them in the journey of communicating which then will reduce their SIB's.
As a sidenote, you might be surprised to learn that speech is not the top priority for nonverbal autistic children in most public schools.