alternative medicine treatments for children with autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, cerebral palsy or ICP
alternative healing for developmental delays
therapy for autistic children

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We need your help now more than ever. Since its inception - not that long ago - this site has had over 6,000,000 visitors. For a non-commercial site (that we've kept free of banners or adverstisements for you) that has had neither government nor public nor corporate funding, this is a significant achievement and speaks for the success and the importance of the much-needed information we are providing.

Please read below why your contributions are so very important to us now. If you've found the information here useful to yourself, your children or others, and you want to assist us in keeping this site on-line and updated with new sections, articles and resources, please know that we would be most grateful for your support!

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Since its inception - not that long ago - this site has had over 400,000 visitors. For a non-commercial site (that we've kept free of banners or adverstisements for you) that has had neither government nor public nor corporate funding, this is a significant achievement and speaks for the success and the importance of the much-needed information we are providing.

When this page was first posted (November 2001), the month's statistics were the best yet for the site, in spite of the general downward trend in visits to similar sites since the 9/11 events. 36,416 people visited the site - up from 28,710 in the previous month. More than 2.1 gigabytes (2,185,134 KB) of information were downloaded from the site in November. Given that this is not a graphics-intensive site, that's an incredible amount of valuable information that we've offered the world!

Since the beginning of 2002, visitors to the site have increased each month, averaging 42,500 visitors per month and an average of 2.6 gigabytes (2,591,250 KB) of information downloaded each month. Given that this is not a graphics-intensive site, that's an incredible amount of valuable information that we've offered the world! In addition our Web-Forums now archive in a searchable index over 1,700 questions and their replies.

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In order to be able to achieve this, our Webmaster, Peter Shefler, has devoted over a hundred hours of his time each month:

Not to mention - of course - paying out of pocket expenses such as phone and utility bills, computer software and hardware upgrades and repairs, as well as the actual hosting of the website.

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Although we have submitted SBIR and STTR grants to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research studies regarding treatments in the areas covered in this site, only a fraction of those monies, if ever awarded, will actually go to maintining or adding to this website itself. And although we are now beginning to search for funding from private foundations and other resources, this effort will not bring income for at least another year.

In the meantime, there are no funds currently available for the continuation or expansion of this site. This is why your contributions are so very important to us now.

Your donations will be used to:

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If you don't wish to or are not able to contribute to this website project financially, and you're still interested in helping us - and in the process, helping many other children with developmental delays, brain injury or related neurometabolic disorders or their parents and caregivers - here are some ways you can still contribute:

Please feel free to contact us here at any time regarding the above opportunities, and again, thank-you for visiting our site. We hope the information we are providing is making a difference for the better in this world.

With Best Regards,

Dr. Lewis E. Mehl-Madrona
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry
Department of Family Medicine
University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine
Saskatoon, Canada

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Our mission is to provide the most comprehensive site available for the discussion of medical and physical therapies for the treatment of brain-injured children, hence creating a networking structure for parents and physicians alike. This website will provide viewers a new way of looking at neuro-metabolic disease, and offer a creative opportunity for involvement in the exploration of medicine and healing."

__   From Fia Richmond's original Mission Statement


How are we doing in the rankings of the major search engines?

As an example of how we are ranked by the major search engines, the following examples from one day's web-log of actual queries made to the search engines, and how we ranked are only a tiny sampling of thousands of similar requests for the information we provide and that the public is so desperately seeking:

When the site first debuted, for the query "what is secretin", our site ranked #1 out of 16,741,310 results (before the search engines stopped listing all pages from a particular site in their results). Now - as above - it only ranks as #16. Why? Because we haven't updated that page on Secretin recently!

Most websites, and many, like the Autism Research Association, update their site weekly and add at least one major article a month. Because of a lack of budget for this and other things, our increasingly popular site will soon be "outdated", rather than "innovative". Please help us keep these pages up to date for the thousands of visitors who seek information and assistance from this site each day.

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