by Lucy Bustamante, 13News Now
WVEC.com
Posted on October 28, 2013 at 3:32 PM
Updated today at 6:00 PM
CHESAPEAKE -- Bill Bosley of Chesapeake remembers when his son Gabe started to seem more disconnected; it was about 13 years ago and Gabe was about two and a half years old. His vocabulary slipped from around 60 words to 30, then 10 and then zero.
"The neurologist saw him hanging off the ceiling tiles and said, 'Oh, this child is autistic,' and that was his assessment," says Bosley. "It's pretty much the word you don't want to hear as a parent."
Bosley started therapy right away but after years at Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs in Chesapeake, he realized his son needed more help.
At the advice of a former therapist, Bosley enrolled Gabe in the Brain Balance Program in Cary, North Carolina.
For three months, Gabe had daily physical exercise and cognitive therapy, meant to develop parts of his brain that weren't thriving.
Bosley said when Gabe returned to school this year his teacher asked, "What did you do with your son?"
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