Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: A Mother's Story of Research and Recovery

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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: Great Book and Worth a Read if your child has autism or PDD
Review: This is an excellent book and would be very useful for parents who want to try the GFCF diet. It also helped me understand the factors that lead to my son's diagnosis of PDD. I have applied the gluten-free, casein free diet and additional interventions such as craniosacral therapy, supplements, homeopathic remedies, homoepathic nosods (so far just MMR). My son has made remarkable progress. This book has been very beneficial as reference for my husband and I on our journey to help my son. Most of all it gave me hope when I felt very overwhelmed with the biological treatments for PDD. As the book suggests, strictly adhering to the diet without a trace or gluten or casein is a must if you are to see results. It took us a month or so to notice a big difference.

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Summary: No magic bullet
Review: This is an very useful book for all parents of PDD and ASD kids, and contains some of the best and most readable discussion of dietary intervention I have seen. The GFCF diet has been enormously helpful to my son, and this book would have been wonderful to have when I was first trying to figure it out. But it makes me crazy that Seroussi attributes all of her son's recovery to diet and completely dismisses the huge number of therapy hours that her county and/or school district provided to her child; and I also feel that Seroussi comes outrageously close to implying that the recovery of Catherine Maurice's children was spontaneous. Buy this book, and also buy books about therapy and special education, and buckle down to a lot of work, and a lot of love. -Sara from Colorado, the Land of Almost-No-Help.