Autistic – Forte Wellness

Why more boys tend to have autistic tendencies than girls?

April 4, 2015
Dr. Perez

Eighty percent (80%) of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders are boys. This startling fact is based on several factors that have to do with the development of the brain in children. For reasons not completely understood, boys are more susceptible to environmental toxins as fetuses, and as young children. During the first two years of life, the right hemisphere develops more than the left hemisphere. Boys typically rely more on the right hemisphere of their brain as children, and also tend to have a larger right hemisphere when very young. Because of this, and the fact that the right hemisphere develops first in young children, any stress or insults (environmental, physical, nutritional, etc.) during the first two years of…

Why autistic children have a hard time learning to talk?

March 30, 2015
Dr. Perez

Nonverbal communication must be in place and activated before verbal communication can take place. Parents of autistic children sometimes try to make their children talk not knowing that it is very difficult to do this without having the nonverbal communication in place. Nonverbal communication is the foundation of verbal communication. Brain based therapy as offered at Forte Wellness, helps improve nonverbal communication. To improve nonverbal communication in a child a series of functional neurological tests must be done to determine if a child has a right hemispheric brain deficiency, or left hemispheric brain deficiency. When the brain hemisphere deficiency is detected then specific neurological exercises can be given to the child to help improve nonverbal communication. By Dr. Bernardo Perez…