1. Is This Your Child's World? How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick by Doris Rapp, MD

2. No More ADHD by Mary Ann Block

3. The Maker's Diet by Jordan Rubin

4. Impossible Cure by Amy Lansky

5. When the Brain Can't Hear by Terri James Bellis

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ADHD

1. No More ADHD by Dr. Mary Ann Block
Outlines reasons and solutions for children exhibiting ADHD symptoms such as heavy metal toxicity, food sensitivities, leaky gut, allergies, and more. Dr. Block offers nutritional suggestions, osteopathic manipulation treatment, elimination diets, and offers an overview of supplements that typically help with ADHD symptoms.

2. Ritalin Free Kids by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman
Provides a basic overview of homeopathy and case studies of children treated by the Ullmans. If you are unfamiliar with homeopathy and are looking for a natural way to treat your child, this book is a good way to familiarize yourself with these principals and the amazing progress some of their clients make with homeopathy.

3. Is This Your Child? by Doris Rapp, MD
Dr. Rapp discusses how chemicals, allergies, and some foods can affect behavior. She provides valuable insight on how to recognize if your child is being affected and provides easy to implement solutions. The information is provided in an easy to understand, non-alarming fashion, and really makes you think about what your child is eating and being exposed to.

4. Our Toxic World by Doris Rapp, MD
Provides information for parents on chemicals, genetically modified foods, pesticides, and other environmental factors that are affecting the general population and most evidently our children. This is a great book that helps you identify potential problems and offers alternatives for parents.

5. Is This Your Child's World? How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick by Doris Rapp, MD
Written by Dr. Rapp, a board-certified environmental medical specialist and pediatric allergist for children. Dr. Rapp provides examples and illustrations of how children are affected by chemicals, pesticides, and foods in their school environment. She provides solutions to issues faced by schools. This would be a great book to provide to a teacher, principal, or superintendent of your school.

6. Turning Lead into Gold: How Heavy Metal Poisoning Can Affect Your Child and How to Prevent and Treat It by Nancy Hallaway and Zigurts Strauts
This book takes you on a journey of a mom who is also a nurse and discovers her twin boys have lead poisoning. They exhibit autistic and ADHD symptoms, and after having her children properly diagnosed, she was able to begin chelation therapy and her boys showed steady improvement. A great book that takes you through the hazards of lead, the symptoms, and how they correlate closely with some psychological diagnosis.

7. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive by Ben Feingold
Dr. Feingold pioneered the link between food coloring and hyperactivity. He outlines protocols he used with different patients and their improvement. Even though this book was written years ago, it is still pertinent today as we realize nutrition really does impact our brains, how we think, and how we react. His organization, The Feingold Group is still active today and has been instrumental in helping children and parents eat better and recover from their previous diagnosis.

8. Victory Over ADHD by Deborah Merlin
An incredible story of a mom whose twins were diagnosed with ADHD. She follows their yearly progress in school, helpful therapies as well as their diagnosis of lead poisoning. Deborah shares that Vitamin C really helped to reduce the lead exposure which was one of the underlying components of her children’s ADHD. She also discusses the benefits of early intervention and her negotiation with the school for programs for her children. Today her twins are 19 and are attending college.

Autism

1. Impossible Cure by Amy Lansky
This book is a great introduction to the world of homeopathy. Amy Lansky worked at NASA with her husband, but once her younger son began to exhibit signs of autism, Amy investigated programs and therapies that would benefit her son. She discovered homeopathy, explains wonderfully how homeopathy works, and recovered her son by using homeopathy, changing her son's diet, and prayer.

2. Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Development Disorder by Karyn Seroussi
When Karen's son was diagnosed with autism, her goal was recovery for her son. She participated in traditional therapies, but couldn't ignore the connection between diet and her child's behavior. She eventually discovered the effects of gluten and casein were dramatically influencing her son's behavior and her implementation of the GFCF (gluten-free, casein free) diet was instrumental in recovering her son from his symptoms. This book provides insight to the diet, nystatin (anti-fungal that helps with yeast), and phenol intolerances in some children. It provides an inspirational story of recovery.

3. Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism: A Manual for Parents and Professionals by Catherine Maurice, Gina Green, and Stephen C. Luce
This workbook outlines developmental milestones for children and provides activities for parents or behavior therapists to do with their children. Behavior therapy is quite expensive and with this workbook it allows parents to incorporate the therapy into play with their children. Most people whose children are exhibiting autistic symptoms due to heavy metal toxicity do well with chelation and then use the workbook to help them understand the child development levels and work with their children themselves. Often once chelation is completed, the need for ABA (behavior therapy for children with autism and related disorders) is drastically reduced or eliminated since the child begins to learn naturally.

4. Let Me Hear Your Voice by Catherine Maurice
Provides an overview of Applied Behavioral Analysis and how it aided in the recovery of two of Catherine's (pseudonym) children. She discusses some of the research behind the therapy and provides an outline of the particular exercises that helped heal her children.

5. Enzymes for Autism and other Neurological Conditions by Karen L. Defelice
Focuses on digestive enzymes, food sensitivities, and rebuilding the digestive tract. This is a great book to understand how food can be affecting your child and offers a wonderful overview of how enzymes work, how to pick the right enzyme for your child, and documents progress of her sons as well as other children utilizing enzymes.

6. A Drug-Free Approach to Asperger Syndrome and Autism: Homeopathic Care for Exceptional Kids by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Robert Ullman, and Ian Luepker
Wonderful alternatives to traditional prescription medications. They review homeopathy as well as take you through cases of children they have treated. You will read about the improvement and in some cases complete healing of children on the spectrum. They reference the symptoms and the remedies used in each of their cases.

7. Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder by Jaquelyn McCandless, MD
This book was written out of love by a physician whose granddaughter was diagnosed with autism. She outlines her learning process, supplementation, and bio-medical intervention that have helped countless children. She discusses diagnostic testing and treatment of yeast, heavy metal toxicity, immune system and so much more.

8. The Fabric of Autism by Judith Bluestone.  Judith Bluestone herself triumphed over the challenges of autism to become an advocate, teacher, therapist, lecturer, and author.  Having been on both sides of autism, she provides a rare look at autism from both a child’s perspective as well as from an adult/clinician perspective that is invaluable for families of children with autis.  She developed a method called HANDLE that helped her balance her brain and body and was essential in her healing process.  She is a gifted writer who brilliantly weaves her personal accounts with clinical research and won the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for creating HANDLE and sharing it worldwide.  The book gives an overview of her life, different modalities that have worked for her and the families she partners with,  as well as some HANDLE exercises in the appendix. 

9. Louder than Words by Jenny McCarthy.  Jenny walks you through the before, during, and after an autism diagnosis that is so real and identifiable by parents – regardless if your child has autism.  She discusses her son’s story and strategies such as diet, ABA, supplementation, and therapies that worked for her son Evan.  The last part of the book is a “Welcome to Autism” brochure that provides websites, therapies, and thoughts from Jenny that she wishes had been available to her when her son received the diagnosis.  A great book to recommend to friends and family if your child has been recently diagnosed.

10. Treating Autism by Stephen M. Edelson Ph.D. and Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. provides an overview to the biomedical approaches recommended by the Autism Research Institute and includes results from the Institutes treatment effectiveness survey (from 22,300 parents) as well as 30 personal stories from families regarding treatment plans for their children with autism, demonstrating that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach.   There is also a resource guide and Autism Treatment Effectiveness Checklist (ATEC) which can be downloaded for free from the ATI’s website.

11. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D. Although this book does not focus specifically on autism, the author does discuss some autism treatments and people who have recovered remarkably form a variety of different ailments including a women who was once labeled retarded.  Dr. Doidge discusses the use of the program FastForward in helping children with auditory processing as well as children with autism and discusses how the program is currently being further modified to address specific needs to children with autism.  Chapter Two chronicles the life of Barbara Arrowsmith Young who identified the areas of her brain that were affected and developed a series of exercises that helped her overcome her deficits.  She opened up a successful school in Canada to help children overcome their issues and helping them “redesign” their brain.  A fascinating read as to WHAT IS POSSIBLE!

12. He’s Not Autistic, but….by Tenna Merchant.  Tenna discusses noticing her child was “slipping” into the world of autism and how she managed to pull him out of that world.  The book is organized into short chapters about different treatment methods and days of their lives.  She provides an overview on muscle testing, prayer, diet, herbs, etc,  that helped her son not succumb to the world of autism.  A very different approach than is traditionally discussed in autism books. 

Homeopathy

1. Homeopathic Medicine for Mental Health by Trevor Smith, M.D. This book begins with emotional problems that can develop in an infant and ends with emotional problems that can manifest in adulthood. It touches on everything from fears, anxieties, obsessions, insomnia, mood-swings, etc., and provides an overview of homeopathic remedies that are best suited to those issues. This is a great book for self-help or to discuss with your practitioner when selecting a remedy.

2. The Complete Book of Homeopathy by Dr. Michael Weiner. This book walks you through the basics of homeopathy and discusses the principles of homeopathy, aggravations, and detailed overviews of commonly prescribed homeopathic remedies and homeopathic constitutions. There is even a section for first-aid remedies.

3. Emotional Healing With Homeopathy: A Self-Help Manual by Peter Chappell and forward by Brian Kaplan M.D. This book explores the role of emotional trauma and their impact on our lives. The author covers trauma from birth to war trauma and everything in between. He provides a comprehensive picture of each remedy he discusses to help both the beginning parent and practicing homeopaths.

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