Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph Over Autism
Review by Rebecca Edmondson Pretzel, Ph.D., Child Psychologist
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Maurice, C. (1993). Let me hear your voice: A family's triumph over autism. New York: Ballantine Books. |
Catherine Maurice presents a riveting, intimate, and heartrending account of her family’s struggle with autism. This well-written book describes the multitude of emotions a family experiences when a child is diagnosed with autism, as well as their confusion in seeking diagnoses and treatments.
Maurice openly shares her fears, denial, and anger as two of her young children begin to show early symptoms of autism. She describes her difficulty in understanding, and then accepting, a diagnosis of autism and her unrelenting search to find interventions that were effective and acceptable to her and her husband. For her children, an intensive behavioral approach was implemented, and she documents their individualized programs and goals which led, in her words, to their ultimate "recovery".
Although this book will be of special interest to families of children with autism, service providers will also benefit from looking at this disorder from a family perspective.