Patricia Lemer: The Autism Detective

Lynette Campbell is the mother of 5, including severely affected, mostly non-verbal, young adult twin sons, and only one daughter. They are very close in age, and span the spectrum, with one son still at home. The twins are in residential placements, due to very difficult to handle behaviors, beginning in their teens. Tune in to learn about how Lynette coped with a husband who served several tours...

Meghna Dassani, DDS, is a dentist who specializes in patients with sleep-disordered breathing. She is the author of 3 books on healthy sleep, and today's sleep crisis. She screens everyone to determine whether their sleep and dental issues are related. Tune into this fascinating interview to learn about how symptoms like snoring, mouth breathing, and thumb sucking can affect the brain's ability to...

Dr. Nancy Tarlow is a chiropractor who takes a holistic approach to autism. She believes that underlying the behaviors and symptoms of autism lies nervous system dysregulation. In this episode, she describes how she evaluates each patient, and then uses various tools to bring the body into balance. She can scan for stressors that disrupt sleep, appetite, and alignment. She describes such chiroprac...

Dr. Susan Daniel is a neuro-optometrist and the parent of a non speaking adult son with autism. To help her son, she learned how to be a communication partner and use letterboards to spell. Her training as an optometrist was useful in recommending modifications to the letterboards, as well as targeted vision therapy to assist nonspeakers, and allow them success. Listen in to learn about her recomm...

Anne Dachel, the Media Editor for the online daily newsletter, "The Age of Autism" is also the mother of a 37-year-old son with autism. She has been writing for at least 20 years about the "autism coverup." Tune in to learn the history of how the medical community and federal health officials have continuously lied about : The link between vaccines and autism; The rise in profound autism; That Aut...

Denise Allen is an adult, who, after undergoing vision therapy, discovered life in 3D. In this fascinating episode, Denise shares how many of 3 generations of relatives all had a strabismus, or turned eye. Although not genetic, this condition runs in her family. Learn how vision therapy helped her be more functional, and how she is now on a mission to teach others about this often overlooked inter...

Honey Rinicella is the mother of Identical twin brothers with autism, and the Executive Director of the Medical Academy for Pediatric Special Needs (MAPS). Her sons, Vince and Victor have different autism characteristics, and have both made outstanding progress. Listen in to learn about mitochondrial dysfunction, digestion, and othe medical aspects of autism. Learn how Honey has been a warrior mom...

Dr. Larry Miller is a family physician and the father of 3 children. A son and a daughter have autism. After learning about interventions that helped his own children, he developed a 12 session program to help other families, not only with autism, but also PANS, anxiety disorders, and ADHD. He uses the acronym DAMNBIGHATS to describe the various components. He works virtually with families all ove...

Tracy Slepcevic is a certified integrative health practitioner who shares the knowledge gained through healing her son, after he regressed following vaccination. She is the author of the book Warrior Mom: Mother's Journey in Healing Her son with Autism. She is producing the Autism Health Summit, in San Antonio, TX, February 2-3, 2024. Attendance is both virtual and in person. Speakers include Del...

Band Together Pittsburgh is a 501c3 not-for-profit whose mission is to create music with people on the Autism spectrum. Co-founded in 2016 by Moondog and John Vento, parents of sons with autism who enjoy music. Both believe that music has the power to unify, inspire, and enrich lives. Listen in to learn how this organization has made a clubhouse in the back room of Moondogs, a local bar and musica...

Dr. LeTrinh Hoanh is an integrative pediatrician with a private practice in California. She combines traditional osteopathy with homeopathy and other holistic approaches to help her patients regain their health. Listen in to learn how even small falls that infants and toddlers sustain can have long term mechanical effects that can cause behavioral and learning difficulties. Hear how dental trauma...

Dr. Randy Schulman is an integrative optometrist with offices in CT and NY. She has practiced for over 25 years, and has mentored many newly licensed doctors. She supervises and teaches about rehabilitative vision therapy for many complex issues, including autism, developmental delays, and brain injuries. In this session, she discusses how to recognize, evaluate, and treat often ignored vision dys...

Laura Villanti is a nutrtionist with over 15 certifications in functional nutritional therapy, advanced dietary protocols for restoring the gut microbiome, Allergy Release Technique® (ART), Klinghardt Autonomic Response Testing, Eden Energy Medicine, REIKI, Bio Individual Nutrition, Healing Food Specialist, 200 Yoga RYT, and more. As the youngest of 15 children, she learned how to grow, prepare, p...

Kelli Foulkrod LPC is a holistic psychotherapist based in Austin, Texas and licensed in Colorado, with over 20 years of experience. Her truly holistic interventions combine body based techniques, energetic practices, nutrition coaching, and nervous system support. Her plans include turning 75 acres of farmland she has inherited into a residential organic Mental Health Center. Healing the soil is f...

Justin Morell heard music in his non-verbal autistic son's vocalizations. Working with his friend, John Daversa, a world class trumpeter, he wrote a 4 movement symphony. Kent Savage and Rob Greco of the Boundless Arts Foundation relate how this remarkable work came to be premiered live in September, 2023 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Learn the story of this event, and how it has changed...

Ingrid Kanics is a world leader in inclusive design for creative play. As an occupational therapist who experienced an incomplete spinal cord injury, she knows firsthand about the need for accessible indoor and outdoor spaces. Listen in to learn about what makes a great play space that engages all of the senses. Learn how Ingrid has used her knowledge to transform playgrounds, children's museums,...

Amy Hull Arbetter is a holistic health practitioner, and the mother of identical twin sons. She first appeared on this show 2 1/2 years ago, when her sons were in high school. Consider listening to that episode first. After graduating, they both started college. One is doing well both health wise and academically. The other has had health challenges, including seizures. Amy recently sought help fr...

Dr. Brian Hooker is a Professor of Biology at Simpson University in Redding, CA, and the Chief Scientific Researcher for Children's Health Defense, where he hosts a weekly podcast called "Doctors and Scientists." He is also the father of a young adult son with autism. In this episode he talks about the role of vaccines and their additives in Autism, a out which he has written in 2 books. He explai...

Joanne Spence is a veteran Yoga Therapist, teacher, writer, and poet, based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the author of Trauma-Informed Yoga, and accompanying spiral bound card deck: A Toolbox for Therapists; 47 Practices to Calm, Balance, and Restore the Nervous System. In this fascinating episode, learn how to use various poses to help calm or energize the nervous system, as Joanne takes us through...

Dr. Mary VanHoy is a veteran Indiana based optometrist with over 40 years clinical experience. In this episode, she describes the many tools in her tool chest for enhancing the lives of those on the spectrum. Her practice includes combining visual, auditory, and vestibular processing. In addition to her extensive battery of specialty tests, she also offers functional visual field studies to rule o...

Viola Valletta, DC, is a veteran Pittsburgh area chiropractor, who utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment. Listen in to learn how when a patient is diagnosed with an allergy, asthma, autism, or ADHD, she works closely with the brain and nervous system to balance function. Since her son's diagnosis in 2003, she has dedicated her attention to those on the spectrum, utilizing the program...

Judy Chinitz is the mother of two sons, one of whom has severe autism. She is well known in the autism community for her tenacity in finding many innovative biomedical and other therapies for her son Alex. It wasn't until Alex was 25 years old that she learned how to teach him to communicate using a letter board. Judy learned that all the motor impairments she had recognized in her son had prevent...

Lisa Knopp is a Vision Therapist at Hope Clinic Vision Therapy, Bellevue, WA. She is passionate about helping people reach their optimal productivity, empowerment and joy through brain training and education. She has expertise in the areas of Education/Special Education, Curriculum Development, Vision Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury. She serves on the Vision Therapists' Education Committee for...

Maureen McDonnell is a nurse who, for 10 years, ran the Defeat Autism Now! conferences for the Autism Research Institute. She has dedicated herself to promoting natural approaches and prevention techniques that minimize vaccine risk and improve and heal chronic conditions. Her organization Save Our Children Heal Our Planet (SOKHOP) focused on prevention. Today she is a Vaccine Injury Specialist wi...

Dawnmarie Gaivin is the mother of 2 non-speaking teens with autism. DM realized that their inability to talk did not mean that they had nothing to say. Rather, it was because they were apraxia, and lacked the fine motor skills in their mouths, lips, tongue, and cheeks to form the words. To help them and others like them communicate, she started using letter boards. This method was so successful, t...