San Antonio College Library

The author, whose son Morgan could read and spell at age three, but not answer to his own name, blends a memoir of his son's autistic world with an examination of such permanent outsiders and geniuses as Defoe and Swift.

A mother describes how she devised an innovative combination of a special diet and one-on-one tutoring with speech therapists and behavioral psychologists to help her young son overcome the devastating effects of autism to experience a full life.

Children with Starving Brains is a message of hope in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of autism, ADD and ADHD. This is the first book written by an experienced clinician that gives a step-by-step treatment guide for parents and doctors based on the understanding that ASD is a complex biomedical illness resulting in significant brain malnutrition. Genetic susceptibility activated by "triggers" such as pesticides and heavy metals in vaccines can lead...