Can't Eat, Won't Eat: Dietary Difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Dietary Difficulties and the Autism Spectrum

Finding out that your child has Asperger's Syndrome or Autism can be devastating enough, but when you discover that he or she won't eat 99.9 per cent of all food and drink in the known universe, the fun really starts. This was the situation the author found herself in a decade ago when her son first took a dislike to milk, and then to virtually every other substance she attempted to feed him. Her book was written to reassure other parents that there are lots of people out there in the same boat, and to suggest practical methods of dealing with the problem. As well as drawing on her own experience, the author has spoken to parents, children, and professionals with first-hand knowledge of dietary difficulties, and their advice and comments form a key part of the book. Can’t Eat, Won’t Eat: Dietary Difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorders......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 7 Introduction......Page 10 1 Beyond Faddiness......Page 12 2 Improvements and Setbacks......Page 26 3 I Blame the Parents......Page 43 4 Throw out the Rule Book......Page 55 5 Survey Results......Page 64 6 Hints and Tips......Page 82 7 More Hints and Tips......Page 101 8 What We Think of Food......Page 116 9 Social Difficulties......Page 129 10 Exclusion Diets......Page 139 11 Doctors and Dentists......Page 149 12 Professional Advice......Page 159 13 Great Ormond Street......Page 167 14 Back to School......Page 177 15 All Food is Good Food......Page 190 Epilogue......Page 195 Bibliography......Page 197 Useful Addresses......Page 198 Index......Page 201 Additional thanks......Page 200 "Finding out that your child has Asperger syndrome or autism can be devastating enough, but when you discover that he or she won't eat 99.9 per cent of all food and drink in the known universe, the fun really starts. This was the situation the author found herself in a decade ago when her son first took a dislike to milk, and then to virtually every other substance she attempted to feed him. Her book was written to reassure other parents that there are lots of people out there in the same boat, and to suggest practical methods of dealing with the problem. As well as drawing on her own experience, the author has spoken to parents, children, and professionals with first-hand knowledge of dietary difficulties, and their advice and comments form a key part of the book."--Publisher description It was the middle of the night and I'd been woken by the sound of my son coughing loudly.