CharmTracker for Female Autism Issues
By Teresa Conrick
If you have a preteen or teen daughter(s) with autism - Please Read!
A group of parents who have daughters with an autism diagnosis are networking to form a group for researching the similar health issues our precious girls are having to endure. We want to see the common patterns or differences so that we can gather data to help pinpoint valuable information. A website for this has been developed, a treatment tracking system for autism called ChARMtracker (check it out at http://www.charmtracker.com). It is free to families and there are over 2,000 users worldwide now, all tracking histories, interventions, diets, medications, supplements etc. of their children. The pre-teen/teen girls would be done in a similar fashion but kept together as a group for data and specific age/sex similarities. This is parent-driven and has no connections to any government or pharmaceutical companies. We will be in communication with each other and the researchers as we journey. This will not take the place of a doctor or a medical plan but will hopefully aid in determining any correlations in our girls thus, guide treatment planning.
As I had discussed with my own daughter, Megan, just recently (Autism Estrogen and Seizures) about hormones and seizures, there seems to be some unique and challenging issues that may affect females diagnosed with autism. We would like to explore these ideas by using innovative data-gathering and parental involvement. What better way to the answers than looking at the affected children?
It is our hope that by systematic gathering of testing, data collection and a good source of researchers, we can find the missing answers to health issues that many of our daughters and loved ones suffer with so that treatments can be matched and health outcomes changed for the positive. As seizures seem to represent a very scary reality for our teen girls, we will also be reaching out to parents of girls injured by the Gardasil vaccine http://truthaboutgardasil.org/ to join us in our quest. Please wish us luck as we start on this innovative and trailblazing journey.
Please email me if you are interested:
The treatment category is sponsored by Lee Silsby, the leader in quality compounded medications for autism.
Theodora,
Please join. It hopefully will be helpful for both the teens and you.
Posted by: Teresa Conrick | May 13, 2011 at 12:43 PM
I am now a young woman with Asperger's, but I was wondering if information from my past would be useful to this effort.
Posted by: Theodora Trudorn | May 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Hi.
I need to add that this would include pre-teen and older to include the girls in their 20's who also have many of these health issues and symptoms. Thanks for the emails so far.
Posted by: Teresa Conrick | May 13, 2011 at 09:14 AM