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April is Autism Awareness Month, the perfect time to read The Autism Book by Dr. Robert W. Sears. A more informative title for the book might be An Encyclopedia of Autism. This nearly-400-page tome covers everything from early symptoms and potential risk factors to different treatments, medications, and therapies as well as lifestyle and diet changes that sometimes alleviate the symptoms of autism. Sears points out that we don’t know what causes autism and that there is currently no cure. He also cautions that what works well for one child may produce no results for another.
Because the research on treatment options for autism is limited, Sears frequently resorts to giving his personal opinions about various treatment options. These opinions are valuable because of Sears’ expertise and passion for the subject matter, but they should still be taken as one pediatrician’s take on what remains an under-researched epidemic.
The Hachette Book Group provided a copy of this book for me to review, and they are offering THREE additional copies to readers of this blog with addresses in the US or Canada (no P.O. Boxes). To enter, just leave a comment on this post. You can get extra entries if you visit the book’s website and leave a comment telling me something you learned. You can get one entry for each site – just leave separate comments. You can also get extra entries by following this blog and subscribing by email – again, just leave a comment for each thing that you do. Make sure you use an active email address, so I can contact you if you win. This giveaway will run until 9AM EDT on April 26th, when a winner will be chosen using random.org.
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
Just checking, has anyone received their copy yet? I haven’t, and wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing it somehow!
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Excellent of you to do. I’m late and not entering but just wanted to say that.
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Congratulations to all the winners.
I really appreciated the opportunity to win this book.
My son is on the Autism Spectrum – I would love a copy of this book : )
I am going to school for Early Intervention. I would be very interested in reading this book. Thanks for the opportunity.
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I’d love to read more about autism. I taught a girl with Asperger’s syndrome once.
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At the TACA site, I learned that autism is usually diagnosed between the ages of 18 months and 5 years.
I learned that 1 in 58 boys is diagnosed with autism.
I would love to read this book!
Please enter me in the giveaway, would love a copy of this! Thank you!
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My son is on the Autism Spectrum – I would love a copy of this book : )
Well, Duh. The TACA site is what you link to after the book page. So you showed me! Sorry. I did learn from both links that there are traditional and biomedical therapies. As a social worker most that I would do should I have the opportunity to work with children on the spectrum would be traditional therapies.
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I learned from the book’s site about a great website: http://www.TACAnow.org
I have many friends whose children are on the spectrum, and this sounds like a fantastic resource.
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I’d love a copy of this book. It looks like a very informative read.
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My grandson has autism and I would like to win this book to understand
more of this condition.