Spectrum Perspectives

Dr. Neu specializes in treating children with autism and finding root causes to disease. In this episode we talk about the cause of the autism epidemic, auto immune brain inflammation and the toxicity in food and the environment that causes the inflammation. He believes it starts with the health of the mother and offers ways that moms can detox their bodies even before they get pregnant.

Dr. James Neuenschwander is a former surgeon who now practices Integrative Medicine for kids with Autism. He looks at root causes to disease and found that 65-70% of people with Autism have Auto Immune Brain Inflammation, caused by toxicity in their environment. Watch the full episode to hear how to treat it.

Dr. Singh is director and owner of True Health Medical Center and Pure Compounding Pharmacy in Naperville, Illinois. After her own daughter died from a peanut allergy, Dr. Singh began looking at root causes to disease, which led to working with many autistic patients. She discusses excitation in the brain, inflammation, PANDAS, and the gut/brain connection. She also explains how Folate deficiency...

After Dr. Usman's own 3 children had health issues, she moved over into Biomedical medicine to look at root causes to illness, and began seeing many autistic patients. The things she has learned can help reduce seizures and reduce anxiety and improve language. Watch the full episode on this channel.

Dr. Torres leads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab at Rutgers University. Originally starting with robotics studying motor control in athletes, she moved on to working with autistic individuals studying their execution of movement, vestibular and proprioception. She says most times they have an almost 2 second delay in sensory processing, but we need to presume competence and give them time to per...

Dr. Torres heads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab at Rutgers University. She studies people with autism and their Apraxia and disregulation, which then helps them with Spelling to Communicate. This is the short trailer. Learn more in the full episode here on this channel. 

Yes it is possible to do an eye exam on a non-speaking autistic child! Susan Daniel specializes in this type of Optometry. She works alongside Dawnmarie Gaivin of the Spellers method and who appeared in the Spellers Movie. She says that 80% of her patients have an "eye turn" and double vision which she helps to correct. Susan helps Spellers see better which enables them to spell and to communicate...

Susan works with mostly non-speaking autistic patients who also use the Spellers method to communicate. She says 80% of them have an "eye turn" and double vision. Once she works with them to correct it, it helps them see their spelling boards better enabling them to communicate.

Dana Johnson is an OT (Occupational Therapist) who also helped create the Spellers Method with Dawnmarie Gaivin of the Spellers Movie. The method teaches non-speaking students to communicate using spelling. She discusses Apraxia, Proprioception, and the brain-body disconnect in many with autism, which is why she incorporates motor activities to help. She also talks about spellers being disregulate...

Dana Johnson is an Occupational Therapist who helped create the Spellers Method which teaches autistic kids to communicate. She incorporates movement and vision to help them spell. Through working with spellers she has learned how spellers are affected by apraxia and how movement needs to be incorporated. These are things they never her taught in school to become an OT.

Between 30-40% of people with autism spectrum disorder are non-speaking or minimally speaking, meaning they don't speak at all or speak fewer than 30 words. Spelling to Communicate (S2C) is a revolutionary method that teaches non-speaking people to communicate using a stencil board helping them to finally find their voice. In this episode you'll meet Elizabeth Vosseller, aka "EV", the founder of S...

Meet the founder of Spelling to Communicate! Typically we say people with Autism who can't speak are "non-verbal". But Elizabeth says that term is incorrect. She explains that "non verbal" means that there are no words going on inside their heads, (and there is plenty going on in there!) The proper term is "non speaking" which means they have thoughts and ideas and are capable of understanding, bu...

Renee is a Speech Language Pathologist who first worked in ABA therapy, then worked as an SLP in Nevada schools for 18 years. Now practicing on her own, in 2022 she also became an S2C practitioner. She talks about the differences between Apraxia, Aphasia and Dysarthria, and how her whole outlook has changed knowing what she knows now. When she learned S2C she realized she "had been doing it wrong...

Renee is a Speech Language Pathologist in Nevada who is also a Spelling to Communicate Practioner. She says she wishes she could travel in time back 18 years to work with students over again knowing what she knows now, and has a message to other SLPs. Listen to the full episode here on this channel. You can view the video version on Robbie's World on YouTube.

Darcy's story is very controversial because she is using a method typically used for Autistic kids with her son Brady who has Down Syndrome and minimally verbal because he has Apraxia of Speech. After seeing JB Handley and his son using Spelling to Communicate on TV , she flew to California to work with Dawn Marie of the "Spellers" movie to try the Spelling method with her son, and it worked! Brad...

Darcy Day has a son with a dual diagnosis of Down Syndrome and Autism. He uses the Spellers Method to communicate. Darcy preaches that "Down Syndrome is not an intellectual Disability" which gets her a lock of flack from the DS population. But she believes they have Apraxia, just like autistic kids, and can benefit from Spelling. She has become a practitioner and opened up a center in Arizona, mos...

Meet Honey from the movie "Spellers." Her twin boys were diagnosed with “Mercury Induced Autism" at 2yo, which set her on a lifelong journey to find help for them. She took her non-speaking son Vince to see Soma to learn RPM, and later explored the S2C and Spellers modalities. After he began fully communicating, she called her friend, JB Handley, encouraging him to try the method with his son. Thi...

Honey is he moms of twins with Autism who she believes are Vax injured. When Honey's son Vincent began to communicate using Spelling to Communicate, she called her friend JB Handley to tell him the news. He tried it, and his son also began to communicate miraculously! He and his son later wrote a book and later the movie Spellers. Honey and her son Vincent appeared in the movie with him. Listen to...

Alexandra is the mom of 4 including twins with "non speaking" Autism. They both learned to communicate using S2C (Spelling to Communicate) which uses letter boards. This interview was done with an "audience" of other Autism moms who ask questions, including Katie and Houston who have appeared in several other of out episodes. We also discuss the private screening of the movie "Spellers" which will...

Kristine is a ghost writer, the owner of a publishing company called "Gift and Author Publishing" and the mother of 5 young adults all diagnosed with ASD. When one child was being diagnosed the doctor said, "You do realize your husband is also on the Spectrum, right?" All 5 were born boys, but one son Samuel, identifies as a girl and now goes by the name Serenity. Her other son Jamie was non-verba...

Laura is a former college professor who had to quit her job so she could manage taking her son to therapies, and became a full time writer. Her son now attends Landmark College for kids with autism. When other parents realized she knew how to manage the system she started helping them with the process of getting their ASD kids into college too. She then started the Autism College Connection. She a...

Meet Dr. Christopher Manente, the director of the Center for Autism Services at Rutgers University in NJ. We talk about what has been lacking in the system and how he'd like to address it, including creating a new job field and courses to specifically train people in how to work with people on the spectrum. He also shares his own journey related to challenges that he has encountered as a neurodive...

Dr. Boles is a Pediatrician and Geneticist, who works with patients with Autism. He says all disorders have a genetic and environmental component. Autism has a genetic component, but most of it is not inherited, it's "de novo", a new mutation. In this interview he discusses the 4 channels of Mitochondria, Cations, inflammation and neurotransmission. After he tests the genetics of his patients he h...

Dr. Kolesk talks about the new center being built within RWJ Hospital in Hamilton NJ for people with Special Needs where doctors and specialists will be able to all be in one location and discuss a patient's care as a team. He is also available for Telehealth consultations and still makes house calls! His contact info is Stephen. Kolesk@Woods.org

Meet Ryan and Jared from Woods Healthcare. It's a medical facility in Langhorne, PA that specializes in healthcare for people with Special Needs bringing all types of medical care under one roof! The Medical Center has multiple doctors including Neurology, Optometry, and Gynecology. They also have a Dental Care facility and Mental/Behavioral Health Center. Parents can come get their kids an Autism...