MOSES officially stands for my son, "Mike Overcoming Speechless Encumbrance Superbly." It also quite aptly stands for "Mike: Outstanding, Smart, Extraordinary, Surprising." The acronym MOSES was inspired by portions of Exodus 3 & 4 in the Bible, when God told Moses to go plead the Hebrews' case with Pharoh, Moses responded to God, "I am slow of speech and tongue." The Lord said to Moses, "who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go. I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."

I am Lisa, aka MOSES Mom. Mike is now 15 years old, born in Aug. 1993. I am also mom to Daniel, born October 1990, and Saralyn, our bonus baby, born July 2003. My husband Jim and I have been married 25+ years. Mike is the kind of kid that puts the puzzle in autism. We started biomedical interventions and diet when he was three years old, and added an ABA program just a few months later. For the next 8+ years we tried just about everything that the autism community was hotly promoting at the moment. He remained nonverbal and a *nonresponder*, and continued to worsen in health and behavior until we found sequential/integrative homeopathy through the Homeopathy Center of Houston. After a year of treatments with our amazing homeopath named Lindyl Lanham, my son officially became a *responder*. He is still nonverbal, but his health has improved, he's social, now uses a ChatPC communication device, is learning to type on a Lightwriter, and excels at academics. In the past year alone, his Autism Research Institute ATEC scores jumped from 69 to 37 (the lower the better).

What does this mean for our family? It means that we are starting to breathe again. We are healing from years of stress and difficulty. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!