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Title: Unrealistic!
Review: I was very excited to read this book, as I had read wonderful reviews. I was greatly disappointed. I believe this book to do a great disservice to parents of children with autism, as well as, those who provide services to children with autism. As a speech therapist who provides language therapy on a daily basis to individuals with autism, I find it highly unlikely that ANY speech therapist who ever deny a child therapy because they do not have any words. Also Melanie, Daniel's mother, repeatedly claims that Asperger's Syndrome is not full-blown autism. Did the author do no research into the autism spectrum? Daniel's progress is also unrealistic in the short time-frame. This is the sort of book that people who are unfamiliar with autism will read and think that if only parents tried just as hard as this mother, their non-verbal children will learn to speak, play, interact, etc.
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