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About
The Author
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. Doctor McCandless has been
in private practice in Southern California since 1966.
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Excerpt
from CSB�s Preface and Acknowledgements, Jaquelyn writes:
Last, first, and always: my husband
of 26 years, Dr. Jack Zimmerman has helped me expand the love
of our eight children and thirteen grandchildren to encompass
all children. A Ph.D. mathematician turned visionary educator,
author, and director of the Center for Council Training (an
extension of the Ojai Foundation in Ojai CA), he has helped
to develop a network of council facilitators that brings this
process of authentic communication to tens of thousands of
children in schools not only in Southern California but all
over the country, with recently launched programs in Europe,
Israel, and Hawaii. He is currently exploring with other concerned
educators ways to introduce council to groups of special needs
children in both private and public schools. His unstinting
love and support in our healing work with Chelsey and his
constant encouragement has helped me see the larger message
that these hundreds of thousands of autism-spectrum children
are bringing to the world. His role as editor has helped offset
some of my limitations as a writer; our collaboration has
deepened our love even more. His writing in Chapter Eleven
will give you the opportunity to experience his visionary
mind and wonderful heart. Jack is a blessing and ever deepening
source of strength and inspiration to me and to everyone who
knows him.
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Excerpt
from CSB�s Preface and Acknowledgements, Jaquelyn writes:
My friend and colleague Teresa Binstock
told me she was formally diagnosed with Asperger�s Syndrome
in graduate school in 1997; she calls herself �aspergerian.�
Teresa�s research and writings -- both published and informal
-- first introduced me to the importance of investigating
immune dysregulations, chronic viral infections, and other
pathogenic aspects of subgroups within autism. She has assisted
me in some of my most troubling cases and has �proof-read�
and advised me on scientific aspects of this book, all of
which has helped me immeasurably. She has tirelessly procured
references and research papers for me to read during this
writing project, especially for Chapter Eight on Immunity
and Viruses. She envisions future directions of diagnostics
and treatments in Chapter Nine, and generally is a fierce
champion of the need for a change in the medical paradigm
for autism. One of Teresa�s manuscripts in preparation --
Autism Spectrum Malnutrition -- helped finally clarify for
me that the end-point for most autism-spectrum children is
a malnourished brain that can result from a variety of etiologies.
This concept -- along with DAN! publications and conferences,
published studies, internet explorations and discussions,
and especially my own clinical experience -- has led to my
operational dictum, �Heal the gut, feed the starving brain,
treat for pathogens, remove the toxins, and help the immune
system in every way possible,� of course, all at the same
time!! As a clinician, effective treatment is always my bottom
line, and I and others (both parents and doctors) count on
Teresa to lead us to the latest research, clarification of
diagnosis, and optimal directions for healing.
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