Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
10 best books like Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism (Jenny McCarthy): Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders, Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit, A Child's Journey Out of Autism: One Family's Story of Living in Hope and Finding a Cure, The New Social Story Book: Over 150 Social Stories that Teach Everyday Social Skills to Children with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome, and Their Peers, All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism, The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening The Heart And Mind Of A Child Threatened With Autism, 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Lifesaver for Parents and Professionals Who Interact Children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome, A Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism: How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive, Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: A Mother's Story of Research & Recovery, Strange Son
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders
| Author | Kenneth Bock |
| ISBN | 0345494504 |
Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these conditions now strikes one in every three children in America. But there is hope. Leading medical innovator Kenneth Bock, M.D., has helped...
| Author | Brigid O'Donoghue |
| ISBN | 1560778520 |
This book has been lying around my house for what seemed like ages and it was only today that I actually read it.
Honestly I was hesitant to read it mostly because it seemed like the annoying self-help book that seem to be dominating the lives of North American society. It was a self-help book and...
| Author | Leeann Whiffen |
| ISBN | 1402218389 |
Told with the intensity of a medical thriller, the extraordinary story of how Clay Whiffen and his family conquered autism.
"Leeann Whiffen's fight for her son is a poignant, intimate story of perseverance and love - a reminder to all of us that a mother is the greatest ally a child with autism...
| Author | Carol Gray |
| ISBN | 1935274058 |
Since the early 90s, Carol Gray’s world-famous Social Stories™ have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 10th Anniversary edition of her best-selling book offers the ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, but now features...
All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
| Author | Kim Stagliano |
| ISBN | 1616080698 |
"Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (remember her?)? Check. What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar Bellini crib for God’s sake! I was perfect. And so was Mia when she was born . . ."
...and so begins Kim Stagliano’s electrifying and hilarious memoir...
The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening The Heart And Mind Of A Child Threatened With Autism
This enthralling memoir is the day-by-day story of how one little boy was saved from a path leading to autistic isolation. It is also a first-hand account of the new model of research and treatment pioneered by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. that makes this recovery possible for others.
Walker, whom...
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Lifesaver for Parents and Professionals Who Interact Children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
| Author | Ellen Notbohm |
| ISBN | 1932565191 |
My son was diagnosed with high-functioning autism (HFA) earlier this year. We knew there were things about him that were different, but we didn't realize how much we were going to have to change our parenting and expectations. Shortly after my son's diagnosis, my mom and I found this book almost by accident....
A Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism: How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive
| Author | Sally Ozonoff |
| ISBN | 1572305312 |
Asperger Syndrome and high-functioning autism are detected earlier and more accurately today than ever before. Children and teens with these disorders often stand out for their precocious intelligence and language abilities--yet profound social difficulties can limit every aspect of their...
Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: A Mother's Story of Research & Recovery
| Author | Karyn Seroussi |
| ISBN | 0767907981 |
When their nineteen-month-old son, Miles, was diagnosed with autism, Karyn Seroussi, a writer, and her husband, a scientist, fought back with the only weapons at their disposal: love and research. Consulting medical papers, surfacing the Web, and networking with other parents, they traced the...
| Author | Portia Iversen |
| ISBN | 1573223115 |
Part memoir, part detective story, this is the powerful story of how two mothers from opposite sides of the world united in an effort to communicate with their severely autistic sons, discovering breakthroughs that challenged prevailing theories about autism. Tito Mukhopadhyay, an autistic boy...
Autism and the God Connection: Redefining the Autistic Experience Through Extraordinary Accounts of Spiritual Giftedness
| Author | William Stillman |
| ISBN | 1402206496 |
"Everyone who seeks a more compassionate and wise life will benefit from this wonderful, insightful, and beautiful book." -- Gary Zukav, author of The Seat of the Soul
One in 68 US children have an autism spectrum disorder, and with countless parenting books helping families care for children...
Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism
| Author | Catherine Maurice |
| ISBN | 0449906647 |
She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense, graceful fragility. In her first year, she picked up words, smiled and laughed, and learned to walk. But then Anne-Marie began to turn inward. And when her little girl lost some of the words she had acquired, cried inconsolably, and showed no interest...
Rex: A Mother, Her Autistic Child, and the Music that Transformed Their Lives
| Author | Cathleen Lewis |
| ISBN | 1595551506 |
I really enjoyed this book! Before reading this book I had seen Rex and/or Derek Paravicini (who is also mentioned in the book) on a 60 Minutes spot. When I saw this book available on sale for my Kindle, I had to try it out.
I found this book very interesting. I connected with this book more than the...
Son Rise: The Miracle Continues
| Author | Barry Neil Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0915811618 |
I had a serious love-hate relationship with this book especially as a professional who has worked with hundreds of children with autism over the years. That may be why it took me so long to finish it. First of all I am a speech language pathologist and so many issues with the first part of the book. I couldn't...
Making Peace with Autism: One Family's Story of Struggle, Discovery, and Unexpected Gifts
| Author | Susan Senator |
| ISBN | 1590303822 |
Receiving a diagnosis of autism is a major crisis for parents and families, who often feel as if their world has come to an end. In this insightful narrative, a courageous and inspiring mother explains why a diagnosis of autism doesn't have to shatter a family's dreams of happiness. Senator offers the...
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
| Author | Brooke Shields |
| ISBN | 1401301894 |
In this compelling memoir, Brooke Shields talks candidly about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, and provides millions of women with an inspiring example of recovery. When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, something...
Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
| Author | David Kirby |
| ISBN | 0312326459 |
In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the...
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind
| Author | Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay |
An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the problem by...
The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly about the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids with Special Needs
| Author | Denise Brodey |
| ISBN | 1594630356 |
Candid, passionate, personal, and heartbreakingly funny, a view from within the whirlwind of parenting a child with special needs When then-magazine editor Denise Brodey's precocious four-year-old son was diagnosed with a combination of sensory integration dysfunction and childhood depression,...
A Regular Guy: Growing Up with Autism
A memoir about life with an autistic son, Matthew, written from his mother's perspective. It answers the many questions that people have about autism through the story of Matthew's life spanning from babyhood to young adulthood. A Regular Guy illustrates the many ways in which family, friends and...
Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
| Author | Paul Collins |
| ISBN | 1582343675 |
When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly...
| Author | Paul Reiser |
| ISBN | 0380728729 |
The classic New York Times bestseller from actor/comedian Paul Reiser, a book that the San Francisco Chronicle calls “an out-loud laugh on every page,” is now available in trade paperback for the very first time. For fans of Reiser’s long-running sitcom Mad About You, with Helen Hunt and Hank...
| Author | Marti Leimbach |
| ISBN | 0307275728 |
A moving, deeply absorbing story of a family in crisis. What sets it apart from most fiction about difficult subjects such as autism, is the author's ability to write about a sad and frightening situation with a seamless blend of warmth, compassion and humor.
Marti Leimbach's first novel,...
Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story
| Author | Eustacia Cutler |
| ISBN | 1932565167 |
I have known Temple Grandin for over 20 years. I have seen her grow ever more strong and independent. I've been amazed at her intelligence, her accomplishments and her determination to live the best life she can, both personally and professionally, while helping others. I've often thought, "I sure...
