Matthew Sumida: Happy Birthday Precious Boy

Friday, August 29, 2008

Happy Birthday Precious Boy

Today our boy is 3! The past 3 years have flown by. They have been different than we had at one time imagined but this child has filled our lives with unspeakable joy and love. We are so very proud of you and love you beyond measure.

Mommy and Daddy's special bundle

The meaning of your name: The gift of God.

You have been the greatest gift imaginable.

We are grateful every day that you were given to us.

Happy Birthday Matthew! Daddy and Mommy love you!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Sooooo sweet. Happy Birthdy dear Mathew. We are so happy that Devan and Mathew have become such good friends and can share so many special memories together.

Patel Family
We-We says Happy Birthday; August 29, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Anonymous said...: Matthew is lucky to have parents who love and adore him, he is so cute that is an easy task!
Happy Birthday Matthew.
Sending lots of hugs, kisses and love your way.; August 29, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Mini Mark just is cute as a bug! Happy Birthday to Matthew. Who knew my Syl was such a good blogger? I love it! Great Job!
Kimmy; August 30, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Elena - mom, wife, friend, and advocate said...: Matthew - You will probably never fully understand how much your mom love's you. I know, the best decision in her life was to have a child because God gave her YOU! We love you too! Paul, Elena and I-ti-ty (aka Zachary :); September 3, 2008 at 5:36 PM

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Matthew Dean

We started this blog because we wanted to be able to keep our loved ones up to date on Matthew and the wonderful progress he is making. It has been a crazy time since receiving Matthew's diagnosis of moderate to severe Autism in February 2007.
Autism is classified by the World Health Organization and American Psychological Association as a developmental disability resulting from a disorder of the human central nervous system. It is considered to be a neurodevelopmental disorder. It typically begins before 3 and is lifelong. It is characterized by varying degrees of impairment in verbal & non verbal communication skills, social interactions, and restricted, repetitive & stereotyped patterns of behavior. Children w/autism often fail to respond to their name, are unable to speak or have delayed speech and often avoid eye contact. They tend to engage in repetitive movements like rocking, spinning, hand flapping and in self-abusive behavior such as biting or head-banging. All behaviors that Matthew was exhibiting regularly. At the time we sent letters to our loved ones, we described what autism was and that there was no cure for autism. Well...... that is not the case. You can recover from autism and to that end we are pursuing a combination of therapies. Matthew is in an intense intervention program consisting of ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis), Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy. He is in this program for between 6-8 hours daily. He is also on a gluten-free and casein-free diet which he has been on since February 2007. We began biomedical intervention in June 2007 as well and homeopathy in April 2008. We read stories all of the time about these parents who start the diet, biomed or other modalities and see a miracle before their eyes. We have not had that experience but with each added intervention we see improvement..... 10% here, 8% there. We know that we will reach that 100% mark and that day will be the second best day of our lives, the first being when our little angel was born! We will update this as often as possible to that you can celebrate Matthew's success with us.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Happy Birthday Precious Boy

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