New Hope for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Envisioning a Bright Future -- A VERY Highly Recommended Book

If you are a parent or caretaker of a child or adult diagnosed with autism, or a professional with an interest in it, you are not alone. 1 out of 150 children born is now diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).[1]

Autism Spectrum Disorder consists of a continuum of disorders including ADD, ADHD, learning disabilities, Asperger’s syndrome and pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). Parents are desperately looking for solutions, but unfortunately, the medical mainstream still has very few answers.

Many years ago, Body Ecology founder Donna Gates learned just how successful the Body Ecology program is for treating autism. Since then, she has been passionate about finding solutions for ASD and other childhood developmental disorders.

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Recently, Donna Gates and the Body Ecology team learned of a new book that is one of THE most comprehensive guides on ASD interventions for parents, educators and health care professionals. To put it plainly, if you are a parent, caretaker or practitioner of any sort of an autistic, Asperger’s, ADD, ADHD or any form of ASD child, this new book is an absolute must-read.

EnVISIONing a Bright Future: Interventions that Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder shares close to 50 interventions from two dozen recognized experts ranging from medical doctors, scientists, occupational therapists, nutritionists, alternative medicine, optometry and Applied Behavioral Analysis.

What we love about EnVISIONing a Bright Future is that it orients the reader with a very detailed overview of ASD, including a description of each disorder along the continuum, history and treatment plans. From there, the book covers every type of treatment presently available from the viewpoint of top experts in each field.  

Where else can you find information that is both mainstream and alternative in one resource?

Just some of the topics EnVISIONing a Bright Future covers includes:

• The role of vaccines.
  
  
• A bio-medical approach, including diet and nutrition and detoxification.
  
  
• The Defeat Autism Now! movement.
  
  
• Sensory therapies, including the role of the occupational therapist.
  
  
• Vision development and therapy, including the role undiagnosed vision issues play in autism spectrum disorders.
  
  
• Sound therapies, reflexes, Brain Gym, homeopathy, neurofeedback, Applied Behavioral Analysis, therapies addressing communication, play, education and more.
  

And this book is not simply an overview.  EnVISIONing a Bright Future gives you practical guidelines for how to:

• Do exercises, like clearing brain-buttons to increase flow of oxygen to the brain and the active cross-crawl to balance left and right hemispheres and improve learning.
• Play with a child who wants to be left alone.
• Eliminate toxic exposures.
• Follow a prioritized model of therapies.
• Choose a therapist.
• Determine if treatment really helps.
• Reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs).
• Follow special diets, including an overview of the most effective diets.

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The editor of this important book, Patricia S. Lemer, wrote an exceptional chapter on “Prioritizing Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” that is a must-read if you are not sure where to begin and which protocols to follow. Ms. Lemer also includes several options for nutritional therapies, pointing out that the “Body Ecology Diet (BED), developed by nutritional consultant Donna Gates is, in my opinion, the best diet of all.”

We applaud editor Patricia S. Lemer and the two dozen authors who contributed to this groundbreaking book.

If you are looking for a truly comprehensive guidebook with solutions for ASD, we highly recommend EnVISIONing a Bright Future. This book moves beyond compensatory techniques, offering interventions that treat underlying causes rather than masking symptoms.     

About Editor, Patricia S. Lemer:

Patricia S. Lemer is a Co-founder and the Executive Director of Developmental Delay Resources (DDR), an international, non-profit organization integrating conventional and holistic approaches for children with developmental delays. She holds a Masters of Education in counseling and learning disabilities from Boston College and a Masters in Business from Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Lemer is a National Certified Counselor, and draws on over 40 years experience as a mental health professional, and 20 years as a liaison between the worlds of optometry and special education.       

Ms. Lemer lectures internationally on viewing developmental delays, including autism, PDD, AD(H)D, LD, OCD, NLD and others, as a spectrum of disorders.   She is especially interested in helping parents choose and prioritize appropriate interventions for their children. Her great interest in vision and the role of visual dysfunction in autism led to her becoming the Editor of EnVISIONing a Bright Future: Interventions that Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Ms. Lemer lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is the mother of an adult daughter and the grandmother of Penelope, born in August, 2006.
 
 
 
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[1] "CDC Releases New Data on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) from Multiple Communities in the United States," CDC.gov, 8 Feb 2007. http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/2007/r070208.htm