Matthew Sumida: Keiko's Wedding Day

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Keiko's Wedding Day

August 2, 2008

A beautiful wedding, for a beautiful couple.

The Johnson-Feldman Family

Keiko and the boys aren't the only ones who have a wondeful new family, I now have 3 adorable newphews and a fantastic brother in-law.

5 comments:

Elena - mom, wife, friend, and advocate said...: Syl - Matthew's success is due to the perserverance of his parents. I'm so proud to know you. Matthew is such a lucky, lucky boy! When you look in his eyes, you can see into his soul...beauty...pure beauty, hope and faith.; August 4, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Anonymous said...: You finally started your blog! Your sis looked beautiful, we're so happy for her.
Can't wait to see Matthew. Thrilled to hear how much progress he has made. Kudos to you and Mark.
Love,
T; August 5, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Hi everyone:

Matthew is so so cute!! Can't wait to see him in November.

I am so happy Keiko found true love; she looks gorgeous and happy!! Please give her my love and best wishes; She deserves the best of everything.

Can't wait to see you in November.

Love to all,

(Auntie) Marla
XO XO XO; August 6, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Your sister looked so pretty and your nephews are so handsome. Looks like it was a beautiful wedding. All my best to her and much love to you, Mark and the little mister.; August 10, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Sylvia, I love yor blog.... Matthew looks sooo adorable.. especially in one of the pictures.. I want that picture : )

I am so happy to meet you. Makes me reassure that there are some good, sweet people left in this world.

Congrats again to your sister.. she is so looks pretty and happy... May God bless her new family and your family.

Love Always
Mahnaz

PS: I love all the songs on your playlist.. good selection.; August 13, 2008 at 12:11 AM

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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.

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Keiko's Wedding Day

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