Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism | Jenny McCarthy

Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism | Jenny McCarthy | USE CAUTION BEFORE ACCEPTING THE WORD OF A "CELEBRITY" EXPERT

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	Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism Jenny McCarthy Dutton Adult, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 263 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

If someone you love is diagnosed with autism, LOUDER THAN WORDS is the first book you should read.

One morning, Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evan?s room and found him seizing. In that moment, Jenny went from being the mother of an average toddler to being in the midst of a medical odyssey. Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed Evan until?after many harrowing, life-threatening episodes later?one amazing doctor discovered that Evan is autistic.

Though Evan finally had a diagnosis, Jenny didn?t know what to do next and she soon found herself alone without any resources except for her determination to help her son. Jenny eventually realized that she?d have to become a detective. She spoke with many doctors, parents, governmental agencies, private foundations, and essentially earned a Phd in ?Google Research.? At last, she discovered an intense combination of behavioral therapy, diet, and supplements that became the key to saving Evan from autism. And, now in this book, she creates a roadmap for parents who are concerned about their own child.

Jenny does more than just reveal the winning formula that worked for Evan. Her story shares the frustrations and joys of raising an autistic child and shows how with love and determination a parent can shape their child?s life and happiness.

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Jenny Frakking McCarthy wrote a Frakking Book on Frakking Autism

I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this review, so in short, here are the two things that hack the rating down for me from 3.5 to 2:

* Repeated use of the F word in conversation is semi-acceptable among those you know well, but repeated use in a book on Mothering and Autism is an indicator of crudeness. There is no need to drag the culture down any further than necessary, particularly in a book on Autism and a Mother's love. (I was in the military and I can swear with the best of them, thank you.)
* Jenny McCarthy seems to think that ONLY mother's care about children with autism. Listen Blondie, just because your husband couldn't take it, and the ladies at the UCLA medical center hung out there all day long, doesn't mean that most Men don't take an active role in caring for their children's autism. I'm the one that does the majority of the active work for my son, and I take great offense at the remarks about men not being involved.

As for the rest of it? It's always enlightening to hear about another parent's struggles with Autism, but her son's condition is certainly out of the norm for most kids on the spectrum, both in terms of the original symptoms appearing after massive seizures and in the amount of money she was able to plow into treatment. I'm glad her son is doing better, but a lot of the material in this book simply isn't useful for the average parent.

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USE CAUTION BEFORE ACCEPTING THE WORD OF A "CELEBRITY" EXPERT

As another parent of a child with autism, her uneducated, anything for publicity approach is offensive. If her non-medical analysis helped her child, that's great. THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR TRUE MEDICAL ANALYSIS. Autism is really not that simplistic, that a Hollywood idiot can come up with the cure-all for autism, that over 50 years of medical research has missed.

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