{"id":1053,"date":"2017-10-27T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2022-01-07T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:26:57","slug":"neurologist-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/2017\/10\/27\/neurologist-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurologist Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Friday morning, we had appointment to see the Neurologist Thanh Le in Newport Beach.\u00a0 \u00a0Its location is hard to find so I ended up park in the business center near by and walk to his office.\u00a0 The building is so beautiful with water fountains and green landscape.\u00a0 His office is on the 2nd floor, William enjoyed riding the elevator as usual but he he cried and kicked when we approached the office door;\u00a0 once we got inside he refused to get off the stroller.<\/p>\n

I filled out all the paperwork at home so it didn’t take long to check in.\u00a0 \u00a0We waited for only 5 minutes then the lady took William to the scale to measure and weight him.\u00a0 37 inches and 36 Lbs.\u00a0 About 10 more minutes waiting in room #1 for the neurologist Thanh Le.\u00a0 \u00a0The doctor came in, said hi to me and started talking about Autism.\u00a0 He didn’t try to gain William’s attention or communicate with him but I know he was observing him while talking to me.\u00a0 About 10 minutes later he turned to William, gave him a little tape measurement so that William can play with and he has another one that he used to measure William’s head.\u00a0 Then he used some metal tool to knock lightly on William’s knees.<\/p>\n

\"\"He said William met all the criteria of autistic.\u00a0 \u00a0The most important thing is William didn’t look at him when he walked into the room (no eyes contact).\u00a0 Dr. said normal children would just look at the him\u00a0 and use eyes to observe.\u00a0 Normal children would point to this or that when they like some thing, but William would just take my hands and lead me to the things that he likes.\u00a0 Dr. Thanh explained that autistic children would not understand body language.\u00a0 If we say the same sentence in 3 different voices: normal, angry or happy. Normal children would understand that but autistic children only understand the words (if they can), not the differences in the way we say.\u00a0 He used Blind and Deaf person for examples a lot.\u00a0 He said we don’t yell at Deaf people because we know they can’t hear us.\u00a0 \u00a0Autistic Spectrum Disorder, why they call it Spectrum?\u00a0 Because spectrum is a range.\u00a0 1 end is Autism, in the middle is normal people and the other end is Politician.\u00a0 A Politician can talk about 1 small for 2 hours, while Autistic person doesn’t want to talk at all.<\/p>\n

He said, ABA services is more important than speech therapy because William doesn’t have problem with speech at all, he can echo what we said.\u00a0 It’s just that he DOESN’T WANT to TALK! and it’s one of the characteristic of autism.<\/p>\n

He also mentioned that in San Jose there’s a company that has a whole building for autistic people to work where they provide foods, shower and couches\/beds facilities.\u00a0 \u00a0The doctor was trying to say that there’s hope for my boy if I raise him in a right environment, he can find a job and work as normal person.\u00a0 But first need to teach him to talk so that he can communicate even just at the minimum level.<\/p>\n

The meeting took about 30 minutes total, I think, and Dr. Le gave us a report right after that. And he said it’s recommended to see a neurologist every year.<\/p>\n

Dr. Thanh Le has been a neurologist for 20 years so I trust his expertise in this field; and plus I really like the way he talked and explained things to me, very easy to understand; and his approach of waiting 10 minutes to interact with William to make sure William is getting used to his presence in the room is brilliant.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Thanh Le’s office – William was not happy to be here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Room #1, waiting for the doctor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Newport Plaza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nice landscape with water fountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dr. Thanh Le uses a metal tool to check William’s knees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Friday morning, we had appointment to see the Neurologist Thanh Le in Newport Beach.\u00a0 \u00a0Its location is hard to find so I ended up park in the business center near by and walk to his office.\u00a0 The building is so beautiful with water fountains and green landscape.\u00a0 His office is on the 2nd floor, William Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[641,497,3,496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}