Lucas is 7 years old, Has Autism with flight risk, SPD, ADHD, seizures, and cyclic vomiting syndrome. Lucas also struggles with severe chewing and drastic vision loss.Lucas was a great baby, because of Zachary's issues I had milk free and soy free diet and he seemed to be thriving. he had no weight issues or failure to thrive. At 9 months old so he stopped talking he lost the words that he had. He was throwing up regularly at that point for 2 months and was diagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome. but he continued to thrive and not have any weight issues. he was a happy baby and met milestones early except talking. he had impulse issues as a toddler but we didn't think anything of it because most toddlers do. he also had a very high pain tolerance which the doctor was concerned about. At 2 he had his first seizures and a few months after that we went to Primary Children where they did tests and gave us no diagnosis. we were sent home to just wait and see. At 3 the doctor was starting to be concerned about a few things but couldn't quite put his finger on what was going on. he still wasn't sleeping through the night he was very impulsive and he seemed to not be able to communicate even though verbally he was well above his peers. his four year old check up the doctor finally referred him to a specialist. he wasn't understanding potty training and wasn't doing well and preschool intellectually he seemed above his peers but he was missing concepts and not being able to communicate. He was violent with his peers and struggled with any sort of friend relationship. after seeing the the specialist Dr Arch she diagnosed Lucas with autism and we started to see the things that everybody was missing. unfortunately 3 years ago in St George there was not any services for children with autism that were not on the autism waiver program. thankfully shortly after that he was on Medicaid and services open. He received in home services and Group services and was starting to make real progress on his 6th birthday he was finally potty trained and was finally thriving in kindergarten. we also find found out that he has over 150 IQ and struggled with being bored by having to stay with his peers. With the Carson Smith grant we change schools and put them in a smaller private school and he's doing amazing there he's now working on multiplication and division in first grade. Unfortunately Lucas also struggled with extreme vision loss.
They have struggled with everyday things like shopping and school.
We got a service dog for Lucas last year and he is doing great. Then our dog was attacked she was unable to work and we had to retire her. Lucas seems to be doing well with any sort of animal.
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