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Meet Carl Purcell

Testing and excellent progress in the early elementary school grades identified Carl as a gifted student, and he received a full scholarship to a fine private school in New York for grades 2 - 4. But concentration and focusing difficulties appeared during the fifth grade, and school became difficult and frustrating. His mother, Dr. Karen Purcell, tried a year of home schooling in the hope that the personal attention of a loving family and friends would help, but it did not. She tried different schools, different settings, tutoring, extra help, and therapy, but nothing seemed to make a difference. Carl became more frustrated. Carl's case was aggravated by continual fatigue, immune problems, and clinical depression.

Meanwhile, his teachers labeled him "bright, but lazy."

Carl's difficult struggle continued through middle school and into high school. However, two significant occurrences shed new light on his situation. First, Carl discovered a gift for writing. He developed a natural gift for expressing a deep and profound world view in beautiful essays and poems, some of which were deemed worthy of publication, and one of which won an award in a national poetry competition. Carl found a niche where he seemed to belong and in which he could function well. He proved, as his family had always known, that he was not stupid! HANG IN THERE!

Carl's mother, Dr. Karen Purcell, a naturopathic physician and a licensed clinical nutritionist, found natural therapies that aided Carl greatly in his concentration and in his ability to sustain a higher level of effort for a longer period of time. She learned of Essential Fatty Acid testing made famous in the film, "Lorenzo's Oil". The results of this testing and the excellent information provided by Dr. Patricia Kane, PH.D., along with other natural protocols made a remarkable difference in Carl's cognitive functions. That is, Dr. Purcell found, as she had long suspected, that: THE CAUSES FOR MUCH OF A LEARNING DISABLED STUDENT'S LEARNING DIFFICULTIES ARE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND TREATABLE! The message is clear: Most learning disabled students have at least one area of potential excellence which, if they can identify it, can prove to themselves, their families, and their teachers that they are of value, and Most learning disabled students can be aided greatly by appropriate natural protocols using pharmaceuticals as a last resort. In addition, Dr. Purcell has found that the protocols which help learning disabled children, teens, and adults can be coupled with additional tests and protocols to help children with ADD, ADHD, PDD, tic disorder, traumatic brain injury, suicidal/violent and anti-social behavior, multiple sclerosis, and even autism. While by no means "cures" for these disorders, essential fatty acid testing protocols, amino acid testing and supplementation, enzyme testing, heavy metal testing and detoxification, and the use if hyperbaric oxygen, implemented by knowledgeable health care professionals, have shown remarkable results in many cases. These may be early forms of protocols to alleviate these heretofore intractable disorders! Dr. Karen Purcell, M.M., N.D., C.N. considers the ability to identify and to help these young people so important that she and her husband have formed a not-for-profit organization to meet this need. It is called: The WINS Foundation We're Important, NOT Stupid.