'Horse Boy,' family find respite from autism in Mongolia
2009-04-25
Trekking across the Mongolian prairie on horseback, Isaacson says, Rowan's behavior was changed dramatically.
"Rowan was not cured of autism out there," Isaacson stressed. "The word 'cure' is not in my vocabulary for this. Rowan came back without three key dysfunctions that he had. He went out to Mongolia incontinent and still suffering from these neurological firestorms -- so tantruming all the time and cut off from his peers, unable to make friends -- and he came back with those three dysfunctions having gone."
Isaacson credits Rowan's improvement to horses and time in nature -- and to shamanic healing