Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Hardcover

Seroussi, Karyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684831643 ISBN 13: 9780684831640

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2000

Synopsis

When their nineteen-month-old son, Miles, was diagnosed with autism, Karyn Seroussi, a writer, and her husband, a scientist, fought back with the only weapons at their disposal: love and research. Consulting medical papers, surfing the Web, and networking with other parents, they traced the onset of their child's problems to an immune system breakdown that coincided with his vaccinations. As a result, his digestive system was unable to break down certain proteins, which in turn led to abnormal brain development. So Karyn and her husband got to work -- Karyn implementing their progRAM at home while her husband tested his theories at the scientific lab where he worked.

"Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder" is an inspiring and suspenseful chronicle of how one couple empowered themselves to challenge the medical establishment that promised no hope -- and found a cure for their child.

Here are the explanations and treatments they so carefully researched and discovered, a wealth of crucial tools and hands-on information that can help other parents reverse the effects of autism and PDD, including step-by-step instructions for the removal of dairy and gluten from the diet, special recipes, and an explanation of the roles of the key players in autism research.

About this title

Review:

Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. Director, Autism Research Center, Palm Bay, Florida, and the father of a five-year-old recovering from autism Karyn Seroussi offers us a researcher's insight, with a mother's touch, into what may be the greatest issue for America's children -- the reasons for the recent epidemic of autism. The book reads as much like a detective novel, a personal diary, and an Internet chat room as it does a fine, critical assessment of this complex disorder.

About the Author:

Karyn Seroussi, a freelance writer, is the cofounder of the Autism Network for Dietary Intervention (ANDI) and coeditor of ANDI News, a quarterly publication for parents of children with autism using biological intervention.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0684831643
• ISBN 13: 9780684831640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288