Sally Kirk: Hope for the Autism Spectrum: A Mother and Son Journey of Insight and Biomedical Intervention

Hope for the Autism Spectrum is a mother’s account of the process of diagnosis and intervention of her son with Asperger’s Syndrome. The author, Kirk, painstakingly details the day to day accounts of her son Will’s development from early childhood through adolescence. She recounts her own struggles with understanding characteristics and treatment of her son’s disorder. When Will was 5 he was misdiagnosed with ADHD, and several years later he received a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome (AS). Through a slow paced chronicles of the author’s varied and sometimes negative experiences with medical specialists and baffled educators and school personnel, Kirk offers her own exhaustive explanations and interpretations of her son’s disorder. …