Just This Side of Normal: Glimpses into Life With Autism
". . .intensely, achingly personal. The information it contains will help families of children with any disability; . . .an inspiration for all readers." --Register Guard, Eugene, OR"Elizabeth King Gerlach's book tells it like it is. Her story has it all--happy, sad, serious, funny--and all at the same time. It's must reading for parents and important reading for professionals." --Dr. Stephen Edelson, Director, Center for the Study of Autism"In this collection of vignettes about raising a child with autism, Elizabeth King Gerlach writes with tenderness, humor, grace, honesty and a calm good sense. She is able to convey the confusions, distress, and yearnings of a parent deeply worried about her son, but also the moments of sheer joyfulness at watching this engagingly 'different' child grow and learn."  --Jane Taylor McDonnell, Author, News From the Border"Just This Side of Normal is direct, unsentimental, profoundly perceptive and poignant." --Andrew Harvey, Author of "A Journey in Ladakh"The ASA book of the year!  --The Autism Society of America