Using Ancient Traditions to Treat Modern Struggles with

Autism

Sarah Williams, Psy.D. www.drsarahmonique.com

Ed Kaleolani Spencer, Kahu o Manawww.kekumu.com

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Motor Difficulties

• Tripping over your feet

• Walking into walls

• Trouble learning to write

• Difficulty learning to Skip

Sensory Integration Deficits

• Inappropriate voice modulation

• Crawling Skin n

• Sensitivity to noise

• Bumping into walls

Social Skills

• Relentlessly Teased

– Difficulty reading– Inability to tell time– Completely disorganized– Struggle understanding sarcasm– Looking disheveled– Joining conversations at inappropriate times

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• Increased integration and awareness of body positioning.

• Strengthened visual processing. • Substantial decrease in anxiety.• Less hyper and more sense of peace. • Increased ability to express my

authentic self.

Personal Benefits of Hawaiian Treatments

Ancient Hawaiian Healing Arts

• Observation of nature and human application

• Use of energy /physical manipulation herbs, plants and social aspects

Languaging and understanding as it

relates to modern day

• Common mechanisms different terms

• Science and soul

Elements as they relateto the nervous system

• Fire • Air

• Water

• Earth

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Subtle Energy and Healing

•Stimulation of biological process

•Stimulation of emotional process

•Stimulation of social process