Product Description

Finding out that your child has Asperger Syndrome can be devastating enough, but when you discover that he or she won't eat 99.9 per cent of all food and drink in the known universe, the fun really starts. This was the situation the author found herself in a decade ago when her son first took a dislike to milk, and then to virtually every other substance she attempted to feed him. Her book was written to reassure other parents that there are lots of people out there in the same boat, and to suggest practical methods of dealing with the problem. As well as drawing on her own experience, the author has spoken to parents, children, and professionals with first-hand knowledge of dietary difficulties, and their advice and comments form a key part of the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63522 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Brenda Legge is a freelance writer. She has written extensively on home improvement and DIY topics and has also written fiction for children and worked on medical and catering trade journals.

Customer Reviews

Very reassuring, if not a complete solution to the problem
This book offers very many tips for encouraging children to eat more, but more important is the reassurance that it offers; we're not alone in having a fussy child. Whatever problems we have have been faced by many other parents. There may be no solution to the problem, but there doesn't mean it's impossible to live with.
I felt very comforted after reading this book. I've got ideas of other things to try, but I've also got the reassurance that it isn't a problem with parenting, but a medically-based problem, and if you can't change something then the best thing to do is find the best way to live with it.
Above all, it's an entertaining read, and I found myself reading chunks out to my husband, as we sympathised with the problems other parents have experienced, and the solutions they've found for them.

Let them be!
A great book that should give parents the confidence NOT to try and feed their children food they sensorally can not cope with. There are no crazy stratergies because none of them work! Do people think autistic children have secret meeting and say "I know! Lets all refuse to eat anything except pringles! That will teach those normal people". So called fussy eating is so common in autism is should simply be accepted. You wouldn't say to a wheelchair bound child "just have a little try of walking, you might like it!" Nor should you ask an autistic child to have a little try of something that is green.

You Are Not Alone
Children on the autistic spectrum can be fussy as well as sensitive eaters. This book aims to provide parents facing these particular sort of difficulties with support and advice. I identified with a lot of things in this book. If you think that other parents, teachers, and health professionals don't, can't and won't understand what it is to have a child so fussy that they would rather starve than eat something the wrong shape or colour, then if nothing else this book will show you that you are not alone.