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Turn Around, Bright Eyes - Snapshots from a Voyage Out of Autism's Silence

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Liane Gentry Skye has written a book that is so honest and straightforward, giving both the intense joy and the intense sorrow that often accompanies parenting a child on the Autism Spectrum, that I felt as if I were sitting across the table enjoying a cup of coffee while she recounted their journey out of Autism's silence.
This book is a must read for any parent or family member facing the Journey of Autism. Your child does not have to be non-verbal for this book's honesty and joy to touch your heart in a very special way.
I hope this book expands the use of PECS in the same way that Catherine Maurice's book expanded the use of ABA a few years ago.
What a wonderful blessing to our children!

As i read this book, i felt as though i was reading about myself and my son. Liane Gentry Skye has written one of the most heartfelt and compelling books i have read, with the turn of each page you can feel the power of her love for her son. This book is a must read for parent's, grandparent's, anyone who is facing the difficult decisions about what form of treatment to use with their child. Liane & David's journey makes you laugh and cry and cheer at his accomplishments.

Author Liane Gentry Skye paints a vivid emotional picture of her struggles to find a program--any program--that could help her severely autistic son to begin to learn. After a long series of struggles and failures with Lovaas type ABA, exotic diets, and herbal remedies, the author and her family finally found success in teaching their nonverbal son to communicate with the Picture Exchange Communications System. In the process of finding communications, and ultimately speech for her son, an entire family came healed.

The author's journal entries, which are deftly wrapped around a memoir, provide emotional shapshots that are at times heartbreaking, bittersweet, motivating, and hilarious.

As David finally progresses with his visual communications, we find an endearing, mischeivous child who is able to interact effectively with the family and teachers that clearly adore him.

The author has done an effective job of proving that autism, no matter how severe, does not have to be a curse. This is one of the books you will reach for again and again when you feel like autism's challenges are insurmountable.

Liane Gentry Skye's love and determination for her son David, is beautifully displayed in this book about their journey with PECS. This wonderfully written book about a little boy's struggle to communicate teaches us that our nonverbal special children can "speak" to us. Their courage and strength will inspire you as Liane shares with you her son's world of silence. She teaches us that we need to open our minds and our hearts in order to experience the beauty that our very special children have. This is a must read for all parents, esp those with children on the Autism Spectrum.

This book was about more than just helping David find his voice through PECS. Though this book was a great testimony to the effectiveness of PECS and other therapies, the best part for me was the open, honest feelings of Liane Gentry Skye. This was her journey, as well as David's. Her journey to redefine normal. She went from despair, to acceptance, to pure joy. She shows us that accepting your child's disabilities are a far cry from giving in to them. She laid her heart out for all to see and held nothing back. She gave the good with the bad.

This book was beautifully written. Liane Gentry Skye has grace, charm. Her heartfelt words are nothing short of lyrical.

I would like to read more about David and Jamie!

I think every parent with a child on the spectrum will hold Gentry's hand through this journey, sometimes painful, sometimes magical. It the journey of a brave woman who refused to give up on her child when everyone else did. It is a must read for every parent being coerced into ABA by a school district, when they know that is not *the thing* for their child. There are choices with autism. PECS can work wonders too. Read this book and walk away with hope.

Liane Gentry Skye's book was honest, heartfelt, and informative. Liane and her son are truly amazing people who inspire all. Liane's journey to find a "voice" for her son teaches us that people with Autism are intelligent, emotional, and just like everyone else, only different. The love conveyed thru the pages of this book is so powerful. Whether your special child is verbal or nonverbal, this is a must read!

If you know of anyone who has been affected by an Autistic Spectrum Condition, regardless of his/her ability to verbally communicate, this book should be in your collection. Ms. Skye takes us on her and her son's suspenseful, winding journey through autism's silence toward her son's dynamic breakthrough with the use of PECS.

In reading this book, you will find yourself laughing, crying, and shouting aloud: "Go David, go!" Thank you, Ms. Skye, for providing a powerful, no-holds-barred documentary of your family's triumph over the most confining aspect of Autism.

This was a wonderfully written memoir about Autism and PECS. Anyone who doubts the effectiveness of PECS should definitley read this book! As well as anyone who believes that ABA is the only useful therapy for Autistic children. It didn't work for David, but PECS did!

Anyone with a child with autism or knows of someone must read this book. I've read many many books on Autism and this by far is the best one yet. It is so real and true. The writer's/mom's emotions come alive in this book. Once I started reading this book I could not put it down. I ended up reading it till the end! You really feel like you know this family after reading their story. It goes through their many failures with different therapies and programs all the way to the one thing that truely worked, PECS. I highly recommend this book! I can't say enough positive things about it!!