Pregnancy: (any major illnesses e.g. diabetes, hypertension or any viral infections, during that period): Gestational diabetes.

Delivery: (Normal or Caesarian, Full term or Premature, birth injuries if any due to forceps delivery): By Caesarian section.

Birth cry: (Immediate or Delayed): Immediate

1. Normal or Delayed: Normal

2. Sitting -7 months

3. Crawling-9 months

4. Walking-11 months

5. Dentition-Normal

6. Speech: Receptive / Expressive (or any regression was seen, if so at what age. Major events if any at the time of regression of Speech): Babbling at 10th month. Regression at 16 months; currently has a vocabulary of about 50-100 words, speaks in monosyllables, will answer- yes or no

1. Temperament of the Child: (As for e.g.- Sensitive, weeping disposition, irritable, silent, destructive, revengeful,impatient,obstinate or sympathetic): Sensitive, Mild, Obedient, Crying, always needs somebody to be with him, especially the mother but will not interact

2. Activity: (Hyperactive, Hypoactive or Dull and Lethargic) Hypoactive, does not respond immediately when called or spoken to

3. Sitting Tolerance: 5-10 minutes

4. Eye Contact: Poor

5. Response to Commands: Takes long time & sometimes seems lost & will not respond

6. Temper Tantrums: Occasional with self injurious behavior

7. Reaction to anger: (As for ex: throwing things or crying or beating or- sitting in a corner weeping, Head banging

8. Feels better if left alone when angry or has to be consoled: Has to be consoled

9. Social Skills: (Desire for Company or Prefers to be alone) Desires company but in the next room, needs reassurance that there is someone with him. Will keep checking to see if parents are there, shyness with strangers

10. Fears: (animals, dark or thunderstorms or loud sounds or anything specific) Pressure cooker whistle, drumbeats, certain songs

11. Performance in School

Good grasping power, does not respond immediately to commands, learns at his own pace.

12. Activities preferred at work or Play: Likes to play in swings, prefers playing with adults.

13. Reaction to scolding and Insults (In public and in private): Head banging, consolation ameliorates

14. Obsessions/Gestures/Peculiarities: Stop signals, round objects, spinning, opening & shutting doors

Frequent tendency to catch cold with nose block, Nail bed infection at 1 month followed by yeast infection

1. Appetite - Average, Hunger pangs at night-wakes up to ask for milk at night

2. Motion - Regular

3. Thirst- Normal

4. Desires: (Spicy, salty, sweets, hot or cold food) - Sweets, oily fried, Curd, Wheat and milk products

5. Aversions: (To any particular food items) - Spicy food, vegetables

6. Sleep-Sound

7. Perspiration: (Less or more or on specific parts such as head or palms)-Normal

8. Urine: (Normal flow or bedwetting) - Normal

1. Pregnancy (any major illnesses as for ex-diabetes or hypertension or any viral infections during that period/emotional state): Uneventful

2. Delivery-(Normal or Caesarian, Full term or Premature, birth injuries if any due to forceps delivery): Full-term normal delivery

3. Birth cry: (Immediate or Delayed): Immediate

1. Normal or Delayed: Normal

2. Sitting: 8 months

3. Crawling: 10 months

4. Walking: 12months

5. Dentition: 6months

6. Speech (Receptive or Expressive or any regression was seen, if so at what age. Major events if any at the time of regression of Speech): Poor receptive and no expressive language, started speaking small words at 2 years but stopped later.

1. Temperament of the Child: (As for e.g.- Sensitive, weeping disposition, irritable, silent, destructive, revengeful, impatient, obstinate or sympathetic): Impatient, Obstinate, throwing things when angry or forced to do things or when not given what he wants.

2. Activity: (Hyperactive, Hypoactive or Dull and Lethargic): Hyperactive, impatient, inquisitive, running about especially in new places, jumping.

3. Sitting Tolerance/Attention Span: Poor - lasts for only 2-3 minutes

4. Eye Contact: Poor

5. Response to Commands: No response; does not respond when called

6. Temper Tantrums-Present when not given what he wants

7. Reaction to anger: (As for ex: throwing things or crying or beating or sitting in a corner):

Throwing things, crying, biting himself

8. Feels better if left alone when angry or has to be consoled: Consolation ameliorates

9. Social Skills (Desire for Company or Prefers to be alone): Desires to be alone; previously was not distressed if mother left him alone.

10. Fears (animals, dark or thunderstorms or loud sounds or anything specific): Nothing significant

11. Performance in School: Not good, likes puzzles but gets impatient if he is not able to solve it soon; good grasping power and understanding but poor memory

12. Activities preferred at work or Play: Puzzles, Likes traveling in two wheelers and playing with toy bikes

13. Reaction to scolding and Insults (In public and in private): Weeping in public. Will hug parents to pacify them when at home

14. Obsessions/Gestures/Peculiarities: With light switches and light. Wants the lights on when he goes to sleep; switching on and off light switches.

Seizure at 1 (1/2) years of age diagnosed as febrile convulsions; EEG was normal; was not on any anti-epileptic drugs

1. Appetite: Less

2. Motion: Constipation; will not go to the toilet in public or even in the presence of the mother

3. Thirst: Small quantities at small intervals

4. Desires: (Spicy, salty, sweets, hot or cold food): Spicy food-chat items, sour food

5. Aversions: To any particular food items

6. Sleep: Disturbed; keeps playing up to 3 a.m.

7. Perspiration: (Less or more or on specific parts such as head or palms): Past history of head-sweating at 2 years of age

8. Urine: Normal flow or bedwetting-Bedwetting

1. Pregnancy: (any major illnesses as for ex-diabetes or hypertension or any viral infections during that period/emotional state): Uneventful

2. Delivery: (Normal or Caesarian, Full term or Premature, birth injuries if any due to forceps delivery): Normal Delivery

3. Birth cry: (Immediate or Delayed): Immediate

1. Normal or Delayed: At the correct age

2. Sitting: Don't remember

3. Crawling: 8 months

4. Walking: 9 months. Walks on toes when he is barefoot

5. Dentition: 6 months

6. Speech: (Receptive or Expressive or any regression was seen, if so at what age. Major events if any at the time of regression of Speech): Poor receptive & expressive language, started babbling at 1 year, used to say small words like "amma" (Mum), "appa" (Dad) at 11/4 years of age, followed by regression. At present he is non-verbal; does not use gestures or pointing but good receptive language, makes unintelligible sounds or hums tunes.

1. Temperament of the Child: (As for example: Sensitive, weeping disposition, irritable, silent, destructive, revengeful, impatient, obstinate or sympathetic): Violent anger, destructive, wicked-in the sense that he will search out and break things that are the favorites of his mom or dad or anyone who scolds him.

2. Activity: (Hyperactive, Hypoactive or Dull and Lethargic): Hyperactive, Screaming, Jumping, clapping

3. Sitting Tolerance/Attention span: Low, Impatient if mental work is required

4. Eye Contact: Poor

5. Response to Commands: Does not respond; lack of response when called by name at 2.5 years. Will not take instructions

6. Temper Tantrums: Present, when refused things he wants or when given instructions

7. Reaction to anger: (As for ex: throwing things or crying or beating or sitting in a corner):

Throwing things, searching out & breaking things that are his parents favorites; screaming

8. Feels better if left alone when angry or has to be consoled: Has to be left alone, consolation aggravates

9. Social Skills: (Desire for Company or Prefers to be alone): Wants to be left alone

10. Fears: (Animals, dark or thunderstorms or loud sounds or anything specific): Nothing significant

11. Performance in School: Poor; avoids work by pretending not to hear or see what is being said or done by the teacher

12. Activities preferred at work or Play: Not specific; too impatient to carry out any activity

13. Reaction to scolding and Insults: (In public and in Private): Temper tantrums and destructive behavior

14. Obsessions/Gestures/Peculiarities: Clapping, hand flapping when excited or angry

1. Appetite: Normal

2. Motion: Normal

3. Thirst: Increased

4. Desires: (Spicy, salty, sweets, hot or cold food): Sweets, oily fried food, Ice cream, cold drinks

5. Aversions: (To any particular food items): None

6. Sleep: Sound

7. Perspiration: (Less or more or on specific parts such as head or palms): Normal, desires fanning

8. Urine: (Normal flow or bedwetting)-Normal

1. Pregnancy: any major illnesses as for ex-diabetes or hypertension or any viral infections during that period/emotional state): Uneventful

2. Delivery: (Normal or Caesarian, Full term or Premature, birth injuries if any due to forceps delivery): Full-term normal delivery

3. Birth cry: (Immediate or Delayed): Immediate

1. Normal or Delayed: Delayed

2. Sitting: 11months

3. Crawling: 12 months

4. Standing/Walking: 1year 6months

5. Dentition: Delayed: 12 months

6. Speech: (Receptive or Expressive or any regression was seen, if so at what age. Major events if any at the time of regression of Speech): 9th month- babbling followed by regression at 1 year. At 2 years 3months - Laughing continuously, staring, aimless wandering, unresponsive.

1. Temperament of the Child: (As for example: Sensitive, weeping disposition, irritable, silent, destructive, revengeful, impatient, obstinate or sympathetic): Irritable (even to change in the tone), short-tempered, beating others, throwing things, destructive, so much so that the mother wanted to put him in a residential facility, obstinate, breaking things

2. Activity: (Hyperactive, Hypoactive or Dull and Lethargic) Hyperactive, does not want to remain indoors

3. Sitting Tolerance/Concentration: Low sitting tolerance, very impatient, poor attention span

4. Eye Contact: Absent

5. Response to Commands: Does not respond.

6. Temper Tantrums: Present

7. Reaction to anger: (As for ex: throwing things or crying or beating or sitting in a corner): Throwing things, beating

8. Feels better if left alone when angry or has to be consoled: Has to be left alone

9. Social Skills: Desire for Company or Prefers to be alone: Wants to be alone

10. Fears: animals, dark or thunderstorms or loud sounds or anything specific: Of dark

11. Performance in School: Poor, impatience for individual work, good at mathematics

12. Activities preferred at work or Play: Likes beading, aversion to group work

13. Reaction to scolding and Insults: (In public and in private): Beating mother and throwing or breaking things

14. Obsessions/Gesture/Peculiarities: Likes strong odor like smoke, agarbathi (incense sticks) and will keep on smelling it, loud sounds like firecrackers or loud noises excite him, his scream sounds like a train whistle when excited or angry; spitting, playing with saliva, handling genitals, hand flapping, rolling paper with fingers.

(any major illnesses either physical or mental): Bronchitis and pneumonia when he was 15 days old; even now gets frequent cough in paroxysms with rattling in the chest, watery coryza, dust allergy, constipation. Frequent urinary infections with scanty urine

1. Appetite: Less, few mouthfuls fill up

2. Motion: Constipation

3. Thirst: Less

4. Desires: (Spicy, salty, sweets, hot or cold food): Oily fried food, spicy food, sugar, salt

5. Aversions: (To any particular food items): None

6. Sleep: Sound

7. Perspiration: Less or more or on specific parts such as head or palms-Scanty, dry skin

8. Urine: Normal flow or bedwetting: Bedwetting

Was on homoeopathic treatment in Hyderabad but stopped due to aggravation of bronchitis when mental symptoms were ameliorated.

1. Pregnancy: Any major illnesses as for ex-diabetes or hypertension or any viral infections during that period/emotional state):Gestational Hypertension

2. Deliver: (Normal or Caesarian, Full term or Premature, birth injuries if any due to forceps delivery):Caesarian

3. Birth cry: (Immediate or Delayed) Immediate

1. Normal or Delayed: Normal

2. Sitting: 7 months

3. Crawling: was not crawling properly used to hop on both knees

4. Standing/Walking: Was not walking properly, improved after physiotherapy

5. Dentition: At the correct age

6. Speech: (Receptive or Expressive or any regression was seen, if so at what age. Major events if any at the time of regression of Speech): Speech-4 words at 9 months remained at the same level up to 2 years. Was put on the Deall program at 2 years 11 months and was continued upto 4 years 5 months. Receptive language on admission to Deall:12-14 months; Receptive language on discharge from Deall: 51 months; Poor expressive language, uses only small sentences

1. Temperament of the Child: As for eg.- Sensitive, weeping disposition, irritable, silent, destructive, revengeful, impatient, obstinate or sympathetic): Mild yielding, obedient, impatient, sensitive, occasional crying; has to be told to do her work gently and in a low tone; will not tolerate loud voice. Stops doing her work if criticized

2. Activity: (Hyperactive, Hypoactive or Dull and Lethargic): Mildly hyperactive, restless, has to walk around the room even when classes are going on

3. Sitting Tolerance/Concentration: Poor

4. Eye Contact: Normal

5. Response to Commands: Has to be told in a nice way, otherwise will not respond

6. Temper Tantrums: If reprimanded she in turn scolds others & takes out her anger or frustration on them, otherwise no temper tantrums

7. Reaction to anger: (As for ex: throwing things or crying or beating or sitting in a corner): Cries

8. Feels better if left alone when angry or has to be consoled: Has to be consoled after being left alone for sometime

9. Social Skills: (Desire for Company or Prefers to be alone): Friendly, desires company

10. Fears: (animals, dark or thunderstorms or loud sounds or anything specific): Loud sounds and scolding; gets scared if anybody shouts at her

11. Performance in School: She is currently in a Montessori school; teachers say that her memory and other skills are good but she has a problem with understanding, takes time. She suddenly gets up and screams in the middle and disturbs the class

12. Activities preferred at work or Play: Puzzles; loves writing but needs support sometimes. Likes climbing walls and jumping

13. Reaction to scolding and Insults: (In public and in private): She will sit down wherever she is and will start crying

14. Obsessions/Gestures: Nothing significant

1. Appetite: Good

2. Motion: Regular

3. Thirst: Less

4. Desires: (Spicy, salty, sweets, hot or cold food): Salty food, cold food, sweets

5. Aversions: To any particular food items: Nothing significant

6. Sleep: Sound

7. Perspiration: (Less or more or on specific parts such as head or palms): Normal

8. Urine: Normal flow or bedwetting-Normal

Baseline Assessment (Pre-treatment): Evaluation before treatment

Assessment Scale: Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC)

I. Speech/Language/Communication

Legend: Not True (N), Somewhat True (S), Very True (V)

Figure 1

II. Sociability

Legend: (N)-Not Descriptive, (S)-Somewhat Descriptive, (V)-Very Descriptive

Figure 2

III. Sensory/Cognitive Awareness

Legend--(N)-Not Descriptive (S)-Somewhat Descriptive,(V)-Very Descriptive

Figure 3

IV. Health/Physical/Behavior

Legend: No Problem (N), Minor Problem (MI), Moderate Problem (MO), Serious (S)

Figure 4

Leading Indications - Head Banging, Shyness, Obsession with round objects, speaking in monosyllables, less eye contact, probable apoplexy

Changes Seen - Improvement in social skills, reduction in head banging, screams instead, uses full sentences with 2 or 3 words to communicate, improvement in understanding.

Leading indications- Recurrence of Nasal block and cough seen in childhood

Changes seen - Improvement in symptoms.

Leading indications - Communication less with strangers, wants somebody but in the next room, sleeps late, cranky, appetite less-few mouthfuls fill up

Changes seen - Major changes in communication, appetite improved, social smile, has become more active and responsive

Leading indications - As an acute remedy for fear of noise, extreme sensitiveness to certain ad jingles

Changes seen - Fear and sensitiveness reduced

The other remedies given were Puls200, Natrum Mur 200, etc.

Leading indications-Sleep disturbance upto 3 a.m., will keep on playing till that time, also mental Excitability

Changes seen-Improvement in sleep patterns, mother feels he has become calmer.

Leading indications-Irritability, throwing things when angry, shy and sensitive, burning micturition from past 1 week, dullness with swelling of frontal region of forehead, gets worse before full or new moon

Changes seen-Better social skills, Smiles & makes eye contact, talks & makes sound in front of the mirror when he is alone.

The other remedies given were Stram200, Glonine200, Natrum Mur etc.

Leading indications-Gestures, jumping, clapping, humming to himself, makes meaningless sounds, toe walking, obsession with light

Changes seen-Speech on prompting, reduction in jumping & clapping, toe walking still persists, hyperactivity reduced

Leading Indications-Screaming, throwing things when angry, screams when forced to speak, toe-walking; prefers playing with girls, anger from insults or when people talk about him

Changes seen-Reduction in temper tantrums, less sensitive to insults, improvement in writing skills/

Leading indications-Has started licking walls, weeping instead of screaming, toe walking, peevishness

Changes seen-Has stopped licking walls, makes sounds, clapping when excited, improvement in peer interaction, less peevish

The other remedies given were Stramonium200, Kali carb200, Lyucopodium200 etc.

Leading indications-Hyperactivity, hand flapping, screaming,handling genitals, spitting, destructive

Changes seen-Reduction in hyperactivity, but screaming persists, itching, makes gestures, but not as persistent as before

Leading indications- As an acute remedy for recurrence of bronchitis with breathlessness & lung congestion

Changes seen-Improvement in lung symptoms

Leading indications-Temper tantrums, throwing things-reprimands from, screaming, sleeps late, recurrence of urinary symptoms seen previously, bedwetting

Changes seen-Is calmer but screaming persists, improvement in social interaction, better eye contact

Leading indications-Has become very irritable & violent after going on an outstation trip with family, beating mother, screaming, is not manageable at home or in school, the mother actually told the doctor that she wanted to put him in a residential school

Changes seen- Is calmer & has stopped beating the mother. Is doing regular activities in school, is less impatient, improvement in attention span

The other remedies used were Stramonium, Coffea Cruda, Sil etc.

Leading indications-Lack of understanding, Consolation ameliorates, attention seeking, screaming, will not do activities unless told nicely, weeping disposition, sensitive, prefers company

Changes seen-Age appropriate understanding, mother said that her school reports show improvement & it was reported that she has shown a sudden change in her understanding abilities

Leading indications-Weeping, screaming when excited, slowness in calculating, head sweating, complementary to Pulsatilla

Changes seen-Speech improved in general but still some difficulty in narrative language, screaming still persists

Leading indications-Tendency to beat others when scolded, speech problems persist

Changes seen-Screaming decreased, improvement in speech and does dictation, spelling without help

Leading indications-Adamant, refuses to do things when not in the mood, speech needs improvement, problems with attention and focusing

Changes seen-Improvement in attention and focusing, decrease in obstinacy