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Summary: Quality Book From Experienced Author
Review: This book was a very impressive memoir and handbook written by the mother of an autistic child. Having been interested in Autism, I picked up the book expecting it to be very medical and difficult to understand, but I was soon proven wrong. The book is a quick read that makes the information plain and simple to understand. She approaches dietary intervention and how it affected her son's progress in overcomming Autism, as well as accounts from other mothers of autistic children. This book is excellent if you are the parent of an autistic child, or if you are just interested in the subject. Definitely worth reading.
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Summary: ABA is what recovered this child, not a diet alone.
Review: Karyn Seroussi does a great disservice to parents by overemphasizing a diet as means of recovering a child from autism. The ABA portion of the story was uncomfortably small and her almost disbelief of Catherine Maurice's children being recovered with ONLY the ABA therapy left a bad taste with me. Here's MY opinion on the whole diet thing: first of all, when children self limit their foods (as children with autism tend to do with their insistance on sameness, not for any drug-like craving) to things like chicken nuggets and candy, how the heck are they going to feel and function and how is that going to make their stools appear? Hmm... feed them healthy foods, give them good supplements - here comes the eye contact, the better sleep at night, the better stools, the better OVERALL DISPOSITION AND FUNCTIONING. Good eating habits are just good sense. It is this person's opinion that you can try it if you want. I would say to just use common sense in feeding your child well and, of course they'll do better. My child is recovering because of ABA, and tons of hours put into that. Mrs. Seroussi leaves that part of the story out - I'd like to know how intensive Miles' ABA therapy program was. No offense to the author, she is a mother that was in a situation like I am now and did everything in her power to help her son, as I am. I just think that the gf/cf diet begins to take on a cultish sort of air about it, in that if you're on the diet, well, wow - you're really doing some sacrificing for your child... and if you're not, you get the snubs of the followers that you're just not getting it... My advice? Just feed your child well, give them lots of love, and LOTS OF HOURS OF ABA. This will ensure them the best chance of recovery.
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Summary: No magic bullet
Review: At a time when not many books on the subject were out there (now there seems to be too many to choose from :)), this one by far could have saved me months in research. She tells the story from a very personal perspective being brutally honest, yet packed with facts, data, etc. Oh yeah and she makes the mysterious scientific stuff understandable. It's been four (seems like 20) years since my family entered this strange new place where it seems all of the rules are backward, conventional medicine has given up long ago and you struggle with what is right or what could help and no one can really tell you for sure...I laughed, I cried, but best of all for the first time in a long while I had hope. I loved this book and I hope one day to be able to leave it on the shelf of 'remember when...'
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Summary: We've seen it with our own eyes
Review: This book reads like a novel, with so much good information. I was blown away, and the price was so reasonable. This book is a must have, if you need information on Autism. Excellent!!!
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Summary: This book is a great idea for all parents!!!
Review: I love this book! I went to the store to buy a different book about sensory integration dysfunction and I found this one and read it cover to cover in 24 hours. (I haven't opened the other one!!) The thing I love about this book is the variety and depth of information. My son is mildly autistic but he's already 6 years old. Thankfully, early intervention at age 2 helped is future. However, this book helped me explore more options to help him and me, especially with the diet. It was like the light went on when I read her story, finally figuring out why all these things were plaging him in the past and maybe for the future as well. I would recommend this book to every parent who has a child. My childs needs are no longer severe, but this book just opened my eyes to all of the options and possibilites there are for children. I teared up soooo many times reading about all of the strives that Miles made. I wish I would have read this book when my son was born in 1996. If all of the parents in this world were as ambitious to help their children as Karyn and her husband, the world would be a much better place. You have to be an advocate for your child, and this book is a prime example of this and so many other things!!
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