Scott Clack has been practicing as a licenced Naturopathic Doctor since September 1997. He graduated from the 4 year Naturopathic Medicine program of Bastyr University in June 1997 and successfully passed his NPLEX (Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examinations) written in August 1997. After 2 years of practice in Surrey and Vancouver, B.C., he opened Touchstone Naturopathic Centre in April 2000.  Dr. Clack was voted Naturopathic Doctor of the Year by his Ontario peers in October 2005.

His initial experience with ASD patients was through the practice of Allergy Desensitization using the NAET method (NAET is Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques; see www.naet.com for more information including updates on a Phase 2 study with the NIH (National Institutes of Health) documenting the use of NAET with ASD children). His initial patients were already following Biomedical programs through DAN! (Defeat Autism Now) practitioners such as Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. and Jerry Kartzinel, M.D. Hence, these patients were already following GF/CF (Gluten-Free/Casein-Free) diets, receiving chelation therapy, and were taking many supplements (and occasionally prescription medicines). All patients benefited from improvements in behavior, socialization traits, digestive system problems and other ASD-related complaints following the combined treatment protocols. One parent of the initial ASD children treated with NAET attributes her son’s substantial gains in the first 12-18 months to the NAET treatments, in combination with other biomedical treatments.

Dr. Clack has attended a variety of training sessions and conferences on Biomedical Medicine for ASD children since 2002. He completed DAN! Physician training in September 2005 and updated his training in May 2008 in Chicago. He has also attended Physician Training through Great Plains Laboratory on five occasions since March 2006, and lectured at GPL training conferences (for parents and health care providers) in London and Kitchener, Ontario in 2007. He has also lectured about the Biomedical Approach at the following professional conferences: OAND (Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors) 2006 Annual Conference; the Restorative Medicine Conference in Sedona, AZ in October 2007; and the AANP (Alberta Association of Naturopathic Physicians) First Annual Conference in Red Deer, AB in June 2008. Dr. Clack has also been invited to speak at Surrey Place, the Halton Autism Society of Ontario, and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine to share his knowledge about ASD children.

Since October 2005 Dr. Clack has met with families and consulted on the cases of over 300 ASD children. Most are from southern Ontario, but his consultations have also included children from British Columbia Saskatchewan, and Quebec, as well as from Europe.

As of the summer of 2008, Dr. Clack will begin his own research on the use of Naturopathic treatments (which are also classified as Biomedical) in ASD children and others with Neurodevelopmental issues. His submission for a poster-presentation at the Fall 2008 Geneva Centre conference in Toronto has been accepted. It will review the frequency of positive test results for urinary peptides from Casein or Gluten versus IgG food reactions to demonstrate which type of food intolerance directs the decision to begin (or continue) a GF/CF diet in Canadian children.

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Your course of treatment may include:

• Lifestyle assessment & counselling
• Therapeutic nutrition - dietary changes or supplementation
• NAET (see next panel)
• Botanical (herbal) medicine
• Acupuncture & Chinese herbs
• Hydrotherapy - Constitutional & Peat Bath
• Homeopathy
• Physical medicine - manipulation, Craniosacral therapy, electro-ther