"An in-depth, scientific--yet hopeful and positive--look at how the brain and body work together . . . Dr. Martha Herbert] has developed a new way of seeing autism."--Library Journal

After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, Harvard Medical School researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism, she concludes, is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child's genes and destined to remain fixed forever. Instead, it is the result of a...