The Autism Sourcebook

I stumbled on to this book when trying to understand what a friends of a recently diagnosed autistic child were going through. It helped me tremendously...and, it has helped them too as they start this difficult journey. This is a valuable contribution and tool.

This book is an excellent place to begin learning about Autism for any parent of a newly diagnosed child. It is also an excellent resource for teachers, family memebers or anyone else whose life will be touched because of Autism.

This book was a great help to me as the mother of a two year old who is possibly autistic...waiting for our appointment at Kennedy Krieger...not only did it deal with facts and info but it also tackled the tough issues of how we feel as parents of a developmentally delayed child....everyday is a struggle and she lets us know that we are human too. I am glad I read this book first as it talks about all the different therapies available and gives lots of info to think about...

This is an excellent book if you're looking for something like an Autism encyclopedia. This isn't really one of those books that gets into too much personal detail about experiences with Autism, it's more of a guidebook and a reference manual for parents or ABA therapists. It has a plethora of information from diagnosis to dietary intervention. It covers all the bases and leaves you with plenty of hope for your child. Definitely a worthy buy for parents, teachers, or anyone else interested in learning more about Autism and how to intervene.

The sub-title of this book 'Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing' pretty well sums it up. When Karen Siff Exkorn's son was diagnosed with Autism she set out to learn everything about it that she could. Among the things she found out was that there was no single source that had everything she wanted to know. There's a web site here, a book there, an organization, theories of treatment, country groups, specialty hospitals -- but no concentrated source. And especially nothing that would tell a mother how to cope with the disease. Now there is. It covers not only the medical aspects, but the personal stories of Ms. Siff Exkom and further the stories of people she met and shared similar stories. To anyone who has an autistic chile, or who knows anyone in that situation this book can be a life saver. I cannot recommend this book too highly.