What is Autism: Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism,

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Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 edition (September 7, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399530479
ISBN-13: 978-0399530470
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Chantal Sicile-Kira
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Other ASDs [Paperback]

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This book is directed specially toward parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Chantal Sicile-Kira's objective is to save parents "numerous hours of valuable time and heartache" by sharing what she has learned navigating by way of the many systems. She has an autistic kid of her personal and she knows the ropes possessing spent "tens of thousands of hours" studying about autism and the treatments and interventions offered, and how the various help and governmental groups and organizations work.
She begins by debunking myths about autism whereas delivering a little background including some sharp commentary about Bruno Bettelheim, the psychotherapist who believed that autism was induced by "refrigerator mothers" of cold affect who pushed their children into emotional isolation. She emphasizes that autism is a "spectrum disorder" that is becoming significantly more and significantly more prevalent with out a clear etiology.
She follows this with a chapter explaining what ASDs are and "How to Know If a Individual Has A single." She addresses herself to parents who have absolutely no expertise with autism, parents who have no idea what to do or how to feel. In Chapter three she appears into the causes and attempts to clarify why folks with ASDs act the way they do. Then she guides parents to what to anticipate and what to do just after a diagnosis of autism. In Chapter five she comments on remedies, therapies, and interventions.
What Sicile-Kira does so properly is to make the reader fully understand and appreciate what it is like to be a parent of an autistic child, what loved ones life can be like with siblings, what the educational prospects are, how one particular fits into the community and what the future may well hold. Autism spectrum disorders are becoming superior and greater understood all the time, and there is even a school of believed that suggests that, in their milder forms, to appear for a "cure" may well be a misdirection mainly because quite a few autistics have a special and beneficial way of viewing the globe and living life.
This is a individual book, but it is also a specialist book. There is an appendix giving "Parent Ratings of Behavioral Effects of Biomedical Interventions": which drugs have or have not been beneficial, how non-drug supplements have or have not helped, and the impact of special diets. There is a section on "Resources," like ASD-Specific Organizations, common organizations, governmental agencies, books and there is a bibliography.
If you want an introduction to autism and the globe of autism from a parental and a specialist point of view, this is an wonderful place to begin.

Autism is a diificult situation to accept, to realize, and to fight. Parents and specialists are flooded with books and articles filled with tips about the causes, symptoms,and treatments for autism. It is an overwhelming activity to sort out sincere attempts from sincere but misguided suggestions from frank advertising and marketing of remedies. This book helps clarify and organize a extensive approach that includes guidance on to advocate for persons with autism. I strongly recommend Sicile-Kira's book to everyone helping with persons with autism or autism spectrum disorders, including parents, health experts, and teachers.
J. D. Feder, MD