Steve Silberman, investigative reporter for Wired and other national magazines, declared Thinking Person's Guide to Autism his Book of the Year (!):
Covering a wide range of nuts-and-bolts subjects — from strategizing
toilet training and and planning fun family outings, to helping your kid
cope with bullying, to identifying the issues that a skilled
speech-language therapist can work on with your child, to spotting and
avoiding “autism cults,” to navigating byzantine special-needs
bureaucracies and providing your child with appropriate assistive
technology, to fighting for your kid’s right to an individualized
education — the Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism is bracingly free of dogma, heavy-handed agendas, and pseudoscientific woo. What distinguishes it from, say, the fine guide for parents recently made freely downloadable
by the National Autism Center, is the heart, soul, fierce intelligence,
and subversive wit of the authors and editors, which shines on every
page. Offering observations from parents, professionals, and autistics
themselves, the book is a welcome dose of optimism and uncommonly good
sense.
