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Jaquelyn McCandless received her Doctorate in Medicine
at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and
is certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology. She has been in private practice
in Southern California since 1966. Since the early 1990’s,
Doctor McCandless’ interest in women’s issues
and sexuality led to an alternative medicine practice
with a focus on brain nutrition, anti-aging, and natural
hormone therapy. She and her husband, mathematician
and educator Jack Zimmerman, PhD have conducted relationship
workshops for years, publishing a book on their exploration
of the spiritual dimension of intimacy in 1998, Flesh
and Spirit: The Mystery of Intimate Relationship (Bramble
Books). They have been married 27 years and have between
them eight children and thirteen grandchildren.
In
1996 after their grandchild was diagnosed with autism,
Jaquelyn returned back intensely to basic medicine
in response to the complexity of Chelsey’s disorder
and began working with the biomedical aspects of developmentally
delayed children. Jack turned his visionary educational
interests even more toward the council process in
schools and the exploration with other innovative
educators of inclusion programs in response to the
overwhelming increase in the numbers of special needs
children entering our school systems now.
Jaquelyn
now utilizes the knowledge she gained exploring and
using treatments for her grandchild to help other
ASD children, including writing the book she so desperately
needed when this aspect of her current life-journey
started five years ago.
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