Autism Education Materials

Articles:

Learner's Edge Research Summaries on Neurodevelopmental Disorders article

Learner's Edge Research Summaries on Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Autism: A Brain Disorder, or a Disorder That Affects the Brain? article

Autism: A Brain Disorder, or a Disorder That Affects the Brain?

Mercola Article: EMF Exposure - A Major Factor in the Development of Autism

Dr. Joseph Mercola Article: EMF Exposure - A Major Factor in the Development of Autism (NEW)

Useful Books on Autism Treatments:

  • Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatments, by Jon B. Pangborn, Ph.D. and Sidney M. Baker, M.D., with an introduction by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. This October 2005 version of the Defeat Autism Now! Clinical Options Manual replaces the previous editions that have revolutionized the biomedical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of autism, PDD and related disorders. Paperback (includes index).

  • Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder, by Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D., 2003 (updated 2005). After three decades in practice as a psychiatrist and neurologist, Dr. McCandless' fourteenth grandchild, Chelsey, was diagnosed as autistic. Dr. McCandless' search for answers led her to the Autism Research Institute's Defeat Autism Now! project, with immediate benefit to Chelsey. Now all autistic children can benefit. This 2nd Edition includes important new cutting-edge treatment developments along with a new and very useful index. Paperback, 302 pages.

  • Special Diets for Special Kids, by Lisa Lewis, Ph.D. Very informative, extremely practical guide to gluten- and casein-free diets--as well as other special diets--by a researcher who is also the mother of an autistic child. Over 150 tested recipes. 1998, hardcover/spiral bound, 251 pages.

  • Special Diets for Special Kids Two, by Lisa Lewis, Ph.D. More great tasting recipes and tips for implementing specials diets to aid in the treatment of autism and related developmental disorders. 2001, hard cover, 272 pages.

  • Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet, by Elaine Gottschall, B.A., M.Sc. The sourcebook for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD). Gottschall’s work is rightly considered a breakthrough by families whose autistic children were impervious to all other treatments. Based on decades of scholarly research and personal experience, the ideas, suggestions, and recipes in this book will be a Godsend to many. 2004, paperback, 207 pages.

  • Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders, by Kenneth Bock, MD. A nice overview of autism, ADHD, asthma, and allergies g specials diets to aid in the treatment of autism and related developmental disorders. 2001, hard cover, 272 pages.

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