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Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds is the fifth book published by New York Times bestselling author, activist and television personality Jenny McCarthy. [1] Her previous book, Louder Than Words , reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has more than 200,000 hardcovers in print after five printings.
Cure Autism Now was a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization founded in 1995 by Jonathan Shestack and Portia Iversen, the parents of an autistic child, whose story is told in the book Strange Son. Cure Autism Now was an organization of parents, doctors and scientists devoted to research to prevent, treat and cure autism. [3] In 1997, Cure ...
The Horse Boy is the title of an autobiographical book and a documentary feature film that follow the quest of Rupert Isaacson and his wife, Kristen Neff, to find healing for their autistic son, Rowan, after discovering that Rowan's condition appears to be improved by contact with horses.
We needed to help my son find stability and support his brain chemistry so he could regulate his emotions, make friends, and stay in class. He was officially diagnosed with autism and ADHD at age ...
In the book, Rimland asserted that autism was not a psychological manifestation caused by unfeeling parents, [4] a widely held belief popularized by Bruno Bettelheim. [3] Instead, Rimland suggested, autism was a result of biochemical defects "triggered by environmental assaults".
Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence is a non-fiction book about Asperger syndrome published in 2003. The then 13-year-old author, Luke Jackson, has Asperger syndrome himself. Jackson wrote the book because he felt there was not enough useful information on the Internet about the subject. [1]
The parents of Jonathan Carey, an autistic 13-year-old, transferred him out of Anderson in 2003 after learning the center had withheld food from the boy to punish him for taking off his shirt at ...
The Autism Community in Action (TACA) (formerly known as Talk About Curing Autism) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 by Lisa Ackerman [3] and based in Irvine, California. The mission statement is "TACA provides education, support and hope to families living with autism". [ 4 ]