Now I See the Moon Book

The author has undoubtedly done very well with her autistic son, and helped other autistic kids with her Miracle Project. However...she is annoying. She is just sooo upper middle class and privileged (not to mention being in the LA celebrity scene!). She has many more financial, educational, and personal resources than most people. Not that I begrudge her any of them in being an advocate for her son and other kids. Also the religious/spiritual stuff, which includes relentless positivity, gets to me, especially when she has a "spiritual coach" for the parents of the kids in the project. I may have to go read Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided again as an antidote.

That said, it's interesting to read again about Stanley Greenspan's methods for young children with autism. I recently read Susan Senator's Making Peace with Autism. She is another privileged upper middle class mother with an autistic child who has worked with Greenspan. She thought she was in a race with time, as there was a deadline for her child's developing child's brain to be able to adapt. I was mildly dubious about that when I read it. Hall said something in passing that implied that any deadlines aren't so hard and fast, which makes more sense.

Hall and Senator both found they had be their children's advocates navigating through the educational system. Most errors they made were in not advocating strongly enough, and both books are likely to help and inspire readers in similar positions.