Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) - Hardcover

McCarthy, Jenny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 141041003X ISBN 13: 9781410410030

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2008

Synopsis

In this inspiring follow-up to her best-selling memoir about her successful efforts to save her son from autism, Jenny McCarthy shares a variety of recovery stories from other parents of autistic children across the country.

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About the Author

Jenny McCarthy is the New York Times bestselling author of Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth; Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth about the First Year of Mommyhood; and Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On.

From AudioFile

Tavia Gilbert's urgent reading captures the complexity of this controversial polemic on the causes of autism and strategies to overcome it. Sometimes her militant tone sounds out of sync with her otherwise attractive vocal range, but it's a good match for the same kind of conflicting energies in Jenny McCarthy's writing. The author explains that autistic symptoms can improve with medical treatments and that the medical establishment is blind to these treatments and to the environmental causes of the disorder. She makes her case with anecdotal evidence and relentless faith in her beliefs. The tasteful, appealing balance in Gilbert's narration--ultimately more personal and convincing than argumentative--makes listeners want to believe in McCarthy's position. T.W. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 141041003X
• ISBN 13: 9781410410030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 355