In her book, Schreibman dismisses therapies that have been proven effective, including Sensory Integration and facilitated communication. Anyone who quotes James Randi as a scientific source is flaky to begin with, but to write a supposedly "expert" review of FC and completely exclude any mention of Sue Rubin or the numerous others who have graduated from facilitated to completly independent communication and have confirmed that what they said under facilitation was what they wanted to say is a combination of laziness and stupidity.

Secondly pretending that there are any merits to the Lovaas approach prove her lack of qualification to speak as a supposed expert on autism. Perhaps by applying the tortures inflicted by Lovaas on defenseless children I could turn Schreibman into someone who actually does some critical thinking before writing patent nonsense.

The few, and very few, good points of this book are in the way Schreibman deals with the biomedical myths of autism. That said, writing this drivel and then taking down the easiest target there is does not excuse this drek.

My grandson was diagnosed on the autism spectrum when he was 2 years old. I have been reading as much as I can on the subject. My son, a pediatrician, recommended this book. I heartily recommend it also.