Seeking Counselor for Testing for Add/dyslexia in Southlake/Grapevine Area

Hi M.,

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Best regards,
N.

If you have been diagnosed as dyslexic, you should consider being screened for celiac/gluten sensitivity.

Here's an article (from the scientific/medical literature, since you have the background) discussing the correlation:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9689235?ordinalpos=1&a...

tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/6fcucm

Plus, there's more general research on neuro impacts including learning disorders in the articles below.

While you have medical training, alot of this research is very new and much of the studies into the neurological impacts of gluten are very, very recent. As well, folks that went to medical/nursing school before 2000 were taught that this was a rare disorder. It is the most-underdiagnosed genetic and chronic health condition today.

This relates to your DD since the celiac/gluten intolerance is genetically correlated. Here's an article on how it can contribute to ADD/ADHD:

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/11... (Note: this is published in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics)

And, here's another:
http://tinyurl.com/5s2o7v

My younger son had those spacing out periods before he went on a GF/CF diet -it's made a HUGE impact on his ability to handle the school work (he has a Mensa IQ).

If you don't want to consider the gluten impact and just want a doc for your DD, I highly recommend Dr. M. Ann Block: www.blockcenter.com
She is an expert on non-drug treatments for ADD and has written a self-help book for parents. She is amazed at the number of parents that won't take the effort to try these things before going to the drugs. But, she will also look for gluten and dairy reactions as they are on the TOP of the list.

As time goes by, many of these psychiatric diagnoses are being found to be caused by physical issues, since our brains are not isolated from our babies (there;s a nerve in the gut that connects directly to the brain). Hopefully the DSM IV will go away - if not for our children, our grandchildren.

I learned all of this when I was trying to figure out what was going on with my son and decided that whatever he had, I had too. Then when I found out I had the genes and gluten sensitivity/celiac, I did more research and had both my boys tested.

Good luck.

Another Doctor is Dr. Dante Burgos (psychiatrist... they can prescribe meds, counsellors cannot) at the Holiner Group at Medical City Dallas.

As far as a counsellor, Dr. Denise Wooten in Lewisville is wonderful!

For Dyslexia testing, call Scottish Rite. It takes a bit to get in, but it is the best and it is free!

For counseling/meds for ADD, call Dr. Zielenski at ###-###-####. She is wonderful. I take both my kids to her. She has a private practice, so you never have to wait. She doesn't take insurance, but you can pay her and then file the insurance yourself. She also has a college who does dyslexia testing, too. She is in Grapevine, right near Ball and Wall Street across Highway 114.

Good Luck!

Go to Scottish Rite. We had same probs with our 9yro daughter. We went to Scottish Rite in January. I was fast it took them maybe a month,, to get our apt, get tested, and get results. Seriously I had bad experience with school district tests, cause they were not accurate. I just trusted someone who was not in the school district. And it was the best thing!!