Dominic is our nephew. When we found out about his diagnosis, we wanted to help so we started to research and found out about hyperbaric therapy. Here is his story...

Dominic, age 4, was diagnosed with autism in October 2007 this past year. Even as a most-loving and independent child with advanced coordination skills for his age, Dominic was first introduced to AEA because of a speech delay at the age of 2. After a few months of speech therapy and minor progress, we decided to opt out of the AEA program and speech while our family underwent some major changes.

After moving to a new city, we decided to contact a different AEA to get Dominic's speech therapy started back up. It was then that we realized he needed more than what the speech therapist could give him and that is when we decided to integrate him into a pre-kindergarten classroom, mainly for speech modeling from his peers. Because we had expressed concern, an autism screening was done and that is when we were informed that Dominic had high-functioning autism.

We knew at that point that we had to do everything we could to help our son thrive. Through biomedical interventions and alternative medicine (hyperbaric oxygen therapy), and tremendous amounts of support from all of our family and friends, Dominic has excelled in his speech and social skills and continues to grow in every aspect possible! We are so proud of him!!

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