Amazon.com Review
In 1984, at the age of 10 months, Laura Shapiro Kramer's son Seth was diagnosed with mild cerebral palsy. Kramer and her family began a search for proper assessments and treatments that led further and further away from reliance on Western, mainstream medicine, and led them toward the alternative therapy community. In Uncommon Voyage: Parenting a Special Needs Child, Kramer documents her family's journey of alternative therapies through Feldenkrais, craniosacral massage, Ayurvedic medicine, osteopathy, homeopathy, sensorimotor training, and vision training. Too often--and oftentimes inappropriately--the traditional medical community takes over the care of special needs children. Uncommon Voyage provides valuable information and support for parents of special needs children who are searching for alternative, effective, treatments.
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This detailed, emotional account traces one mother's attempts to find the correct therapy for her son, who suffers from cerebral palsy. When Kramer did not find support through traditional medicine, she turned to alternative treatments. After encounters with Feldenkrais training, Alexander teachers, the Trager method, and cranial osteopathy, among others, her son Seth began to thrive and grow. This account is almost a diary, recording Kramer's visits over a dozen years to therapists in New York City, on Cape Cod during the summers, and in LaJolla, California, often for weeks at a time. Throughout, Kramer reveals herself to be a gifted writer and rememberer who was able to see events in perspective, study methodology, and educate herself and her family in what to do next. As much as this will give hope to parents dismayed by standard medical practice, it might be depressing for the many who cannot afford the caregivers, therapists, and travel Kramer uses so readily. Nevertheless, the alternatives found by this assertive, never-give-up mother are worth sharing. [Kramer has been featured in Family Circle and on Oprah; librarians should expect publicity and commensurate demand.?Ed.]?Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.
-?Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-?Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
