14/11/2024
How I Discovered Homeopathic Medicine, through Speech Therapy
Interestingly we used to live at the end of the street when Dad was working for British Gas in Holborn in the 90’s… I was at City University studying Speech Therapy and used to walk past this building everyday to Russell Square tube station… or get the number 38 bus to Saddler’s Wells. Seems like yesterday.
I used to read the writing in the brick every time I passed the building and think “ what’s that then?”
There was no Google in those days and as soon as I arrived at college my thought would turn to anatomy or neurology or phonetics/ linguistics or whatever lecture was on that day… so I never got around to finding out what it was… until 2011 when a woman asked to pay me privately for speech therapy sessions for her son. I agreed and did a home visit only to find during my assessment of his skills that his communication skills were almost on par with his age level.
All to note was “mild word-finding difficulties”, for which l provided a couple of sessions to demonstrate techniques plus some work on expanding sentence structure … that was it he was good to go along then
So when I concluded that he really didn’t need any more input..the Mother said to me, yes he is doing well these days, you should have seen him two years ago when he was 2, he had a diagnosis of Autism, no words, unmanageable behaviour, it was very hard”
Working mainly in the NHS at the time, this was my first private client, I was shocked as usually with that profile at two years old I wasn’t used to seeing the level of ability of the child in front of me two years later.
I was intrigued to know and asked “ how has he done so well,!what therapy have you used?”
“ homeopathic medicines” she told me and handed me a book.
That was it. I enrolled on the four year Licentiate at The Welsh School of Homeopathy that September
Did you know?
The original London Homoeopathic Hospital was established on October 10, 1849, although it did not receive its first patient until March of the following year. Founded by Frederick Foster Hervey Quin, the hospital was first located in Golden Square, Soho. After several revivals it is now known as the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, located at 60 Great Ormond Street, London.
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