Empowering books we have read
Nourishing Hope for Autism by Julie Matthews, CNC (autism nutrition specialist)
Subtitle: Nutrition and diet guide for healing our children
Nourishing Hope for Autism
This autism diet intervention guide provides the scientific WHY and HOW various diets help children find relief from the symptoms of autism. Contains a step-by-step nutrition guide that stems from extensive clinical experience and research.
Food intake affects the behaviour of children with autism. Parents can learn that making strategic/calculated food choices can help children’s bodies heal. In fact, healing autism diets help most children become healthier and less symptomatic. Parents can effect immediate improvement in their children through informed food choices.
Eating for Autismby Elizabeth Strickland, MS, RD, LD
Subtitle: The 10 step nutrition plan to help treat your child’s autism, asperger’s or ADHD
Eating for Autism
What your child eats has a major impact on his brain and body function. Eating for Autism is the first book to explain how these conditions can effectively be treated through diet. This book presents a realistic 10-step plan to change your child’s diet, starting with essential foods and supplements and moving to more advanced therapies like the Gluten-Free Casein-Free diet.
Parents who have followed Strickland’s revolutionary plan have reported great improvements in their child’s condition. Complete with 75 balanced, kid-friendly recipes, and advice on overcoming sensory and feeding skill problems, Eating for Autism is an essential resource to help a child reach his full potential.
Everything You Need to Know about Enzymesby Tom Bohager
Subtitle: A simple guide to using enzymes to treat everything from digestive problems and allergies to migraines and arthritis
Everything you need to know about enzymes
This book will help you appreciate the importance of enzymes and how vital they are in supporting optimal health. Once you truly understand this connection, you will have a potent tool to help you maintain your health and overcome common health issues.
Enzymes have changed the lives of millions of people, and they can change yours too. Whether you're in good health now, have a few health complaints, or have been living with pain and discomfort for a long time, the information and programs recommended in this book can help you improve your quality of life and feel better than you may have believed possible.
Decoding Food Additivesby Dr Geoffrey Skurray
Subtitle: A comprehensive guide to food additive codes and food labelling
Decoding Food Additives
Dr Geoffrey Skurray presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive catalogue of food additives approved for use in food processing in Australia today. Each entry lists the source of the additive, its function, acceptable daily intake (ADI) and maximum allowable levels, together with a description of its properties and its uses.
The book also addresses contemporary issues such as new labelling regulations, why the food industry uses additives, food allergies and food sensitivities, consumer concerns about genetically modified and irradiated food, and links between food additives and attention disorders or hyperactivity in children.
Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatmentsby Jon Pangborn & Sidney MacDonald Baker
Subtitle: Individuality in an Epidemic
Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatments
This is an updated revision of previous editions of Biomedical Assessment Options for Children with Autism & Related Problems that have revolutionized the biomedical approach to diagnosis and treatment of autism, PDD, and related disorders.
Healing Young Brainsby Robert W Hill, PHD, and Eduardo Castro, MD
Subtitle: The Neurofeedback Solution.
Healing Young Brains – the neurofeedback solution
Subtitle: Drug-free treatment for childhood disorders – including autism, ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
Healing Young Brains is the parents’ guide to all they need to know about treating their children with neurofeedback as an alternative to drugs.
“Neurofeedback is a natural, self-regulating approach that helps restore the brain’s ability to function ... Intelligent and widespread use of neurofeedback ... has the potential to heal some of the deepest and most devastating wounds of our children and our society.”
The Brain that Changes Itselfby Norman Doidge, MD
Subtitle: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science
The Brain that Changes Itself
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age.
In this international bestseller, psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around the United States to meet the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, and the people whose lives they’ve transformed – people whose mental limitations or brain damage were previously seen as unalterable, and whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless.
The Unturned Stoneby Harry Massey & Peter Fraser
Subtitle: ... a revolution in preventative healthcare
The Unturned Stone ... a revolution in preventative healthcare
Subtitle: The Discovery of the Map of the Human Body-field and the development of the Nutri-Energetics Health System.
Peter Fraser has spent the last 15 years mapping out the human body-field, which can be seen as the master control system (above the chemical control system) for all metabolism, growth and general human functioning.
This ground-breaking book takes you on a journey from the existing knowledge in the ever growing field of energetic medicine, through to being able to explain how traditional medical systems such as Chinese Medicine and Homeopathy work through their interaction with the Quantum Electro Dynamic Field generated by your body and surrounding your DNA.
It goes onto explain using the latest research in quantum physics – how we are now able to not only look at how well your body-field is functioning but also how it can be improved.
Healing Yourself & Others by Mastering Energy and Informationby Harry Massey
Healing Yourself & Others by Mastering Energy and Information
In this book, Harry Massey explores how, through mastering energy and information, we can heal both ourselves and others.
Massey presents the nature of reality and suggests that, by using his five core principles, we can master life.
This insightful book concludes with Massey’s vision of a new kind of health available to everyone.
The Biology of Beliefby Bruce H Lipton, Ph D
Subtitle: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
The Biology of Belief
Author Dr Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr Lipton&8217;s profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.
&8220;Bruce Lipton&8221;s book is the definitive summary of the new biology and all it implies. It is magnificent, profound beyond words, and a delight to read. It synthesizes an encyclopedia of critical new information into a brilliant yet simple package. These pages contain a genuine revolution in thought and understanding, one so radical that it can change the world.&8221; – Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Magical Child and Evolution&8217;s End
The Elimination Dietfrom the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
(with food and shopping guide)
The Elimination Diet from the RPAH
This book is the complete guide to the RPAH Elimination Diet. It lists which foods are high, medium and low in natural food chemicals. It also lists the products and brands that are suitable depending on which level of elimination you undertake. It provides a good explanation of food intolerance versus allergy and how to avoid chemicals in other products such as personal care and cleaning.
Friendly Foodfrom the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Subtitle: The essential guide to avoiding allergies, additives and problem chemicals
Friendly Food
Delicious recipes for people who are avoiding food chemicals, gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts and soy.
Australia’s leading allergy experts clearly explain what food chemicals are, how they affect us and how we can avoid them. Packed full of imaginative recipes for all lifestyles and ages, this complete guide to chemical-free eating covers family meals and outings, school lunches, entertaining, snacks and drinks, sweet treats and baking. A simple guide to using the recipes and list of food additive codes makes this an invaluable aid for all health-conscious people today.
Friendly Food has been produced in conjunction with a group of world renowned allergy experts. The book is an essential guide for anyone with allergies or food or chemical intolerances. There are over 100 recipes for every occasion, each clearly marked so the reader can easily identify if the recipe contains gluten, egg, dairy or wheat. Most of the recipes are developed to be low in chemicals, in order to accommodate readers with severe chemical intolerances. In addition, most recipes have at least one variation to cater for people whose intolerances are less severe.
An extensive introduction explains what food intolerance and allergies consist of, gives dietary advice and includes many charts showing the various levels of chemicals that foods contain. The simple design, fresh photography, useful information and easy recipes make this book a life saver for anyone with a food allergy or intolerance
What You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child with Autism by Jonathan Levy
Subtitle: The best techniques to help your child interact more deeply and consistently
What You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child with Autism
“All children with autism have ways of dropping into their own world, leaving us behind for a minute, an hour, a day.”
This is the essence of autism: a disorder that is, at its heart, about interaction. Many of the symptoms associated with autism come from either a lack of paying attention to other people or a lack of interest in joining in with the rest of the world.
Because this is the case, it is important that when you work with your child, you are addressing the core issue of autism: your child, for one reason or another, is not spending enough time in our interactive world.
This book covers the best techniques you can use – right now – to work with your child and draw him or her back into our interactive world.
Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
Subtitle: My life with Asperger’s
Look me in the eye
This thoughtful account of living with Asperger’s syndrome is assured of attention due in part to his brother’s fascinating description of Robison in Running with Scissors. But Robison’s story is much more fully detailed in this moving memoir, beginning with his painful childhood, his abusive alcoholic father and his mentally disturbed mother. Robison describes how from nursery school on he could not communicate effectively with others, something his brain is not wired to do, since kids with Asperger’s don’t recognize common social cues and body language or facial expressions.
Not until age 40 did a therapist correctly diagnose him as having Asperger’s. In the end, Robison succeeds in his goal of helping those who are struggling to grow up or live with Asperger’s to see how it is not a disease but a way of being that needs no cure except understanding and encouragement from others.
A Friend like Henry by Nuala Gardner
A friend like Henry
This is an inspiring and fascinating account of how one devoted and talented dog helped a little boy conquer his autism.
The special bond between Dale Gardner and his dog Henry helped to produce the breakthrough in Dale his parents had long sought. From taking a bath to saying ‘I love you’, Henry helped introduce Dale to all the normal activities most parents take for granted, and set him on the road to being the charming and well-adjusted young man he is today.
The Fabric of Autism by Judith Bluestone
Subtitle: Weaving the threads into a cogent theory
The Fabric of Autism
In The Fabric of Autism, Judith Bluestone combines her personal autistic experience with academic research and more than 35 years of clinical practice to craft a unique and compelling view of the phenomenon called autism.
This book shows us that compassion, understanding, and intuition can co-exist with neuroscience, providing a new view of the complex neurological dysfunction labeled autism. It also provides a number of practical suggestions that are helping a growing number of individuals and families to resolve many of their challenges and attain functional, adaptive, responsible lives.
The Fabric of Autism is particularly significant for all parents and professionals interested in Autism Spectrum Disorders, and it is valuable for those struggling to understand numerous other disorders of communication and learning.
All I Can Handle: I’m no Mother Teresaby Kim Stagliano
Subtitle: A life raising three daughters with autism
All I Can Handle: I’m no Mother Teresa
In this passionate, funny memoir, Stagliano reveals what it’s like to be the mother of three daughters with autism. Many parents of children diagnosed with the disorder will snap up this book, which is a far-from-boring read.
The author Kim does not make autism sound like a death sentence but she also does not glamorize it. She presents difficult and little-discussed subjects with great humour and in a down-to-earth way.
“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
~ James Bryce