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No Map to This Country: One Family´s Journey through Autism
Jennifer Noonan
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Description for No Map to This Country: One Family´s Journey through Autism
Paperback. A heartbreaking yet also funny and ultimately empowering memoir revealing the a multi-year journey into the latest science and treatments in order to rescue her kids and her family from autism. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JMP; MJNA; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 422.
Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009, she refused to accept the conventional wisdom that autism was largely permanent, instead launching a relentless investigation into the very latest dietary, immunological, and metabolic research available. I certainly had no reason to believe at that time that autism was treatable, she writes, but somehow I decided, in my classically pigheaded way, that it would be. This spirited audacity gave her not only courage,and ultimately success,in the face of such a devastating diagnosis, but also a self-aware ... Read more
Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009, she refused to accept the conventional wisdom that autism was largely permanent, instead launching a relentless investigation into the very latest dietary, immunological, and metabolic research available. I certainly had no reason to believe at that time that autism was treatable, she writes, but somehow I decided, in my classically pigheaded way, that it would be. This spirited audacity gave her not only courage,and ultimately success,in the face of such a devastating diagnosis, but also a self-aware ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9780738219042
SKU
V9780738219042
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About Jennifer Noonan
Jennifer Noonan is the founder of www.thegfcflady.com, a website for autism parents. Despite the photos and recipes on her popular website, Jennifer Noonan is not a professional photographer, and she's definitely not a professional cook. She's just a mom who got thrown into the deep end when she decided to put her autistic son on the GFCF Diet. She found ... Read more
Reviews for No Map to This Country: One Family´s Journey through Autism
Praise for No Map to This Country Careful and eloquent, honest and moving...Noonan's work demonstrates why we should have the deepest respect and admiration for the parents.
Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky, Pritzker Scholar, Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Computation Institute and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago Jennifer Noonan picks up the gauntlet of ... Read more
Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky, Pritzker Scholar, Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Computation Institute and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago Jennifer Noonan picks up the gauntlet of ... Read more