Annabel Stehli is the author of the celebrated The Sound of a Miracle, the story of her own daughter, Georgiana’s experience with autism and her recovery. As a result of that book, Annabel received letters from hundreds of parents who were facing similar questions with their own children. As a result, Annabel compiled many of their stories in Dancing in the Rain which has given hope to thousands who have experienced autism in their own families. Now, many years later, Annabel has edited a new volume, Sound of Falling Snow, with stories about recovery from autism and related disorders. These stories, fourteen in all, written by parents should serve to inspire and encourage parents who may feel that they are fighting the battle alone.
ISBN: 978-0-825305-32-0
$14.95 Paperback
Self-help
Pages 5.5×8.5
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Dancing in the Rain: Stories of Exceptional Progress by Parents of Children with Special Needs is a guide to the world of learning disabilities, developmental delay and autism. An inspiring and riveting selection of stories, they are written with candor and intelligence by the parents of children with special needs and edited by Annabel Stehli, author of The Sound of a Miracle. Focusing on attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, hyperlexia, pervasive developmental delay, communication delay, central auditory processing disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome and autism, here are strategies that worked in twenty-two cases. “How I wish a book like this had been available when my daughter was first diagnosed. It would have made all the difference,” says Annabel Stehli.
The Sound of a Miracle is the riveting story of Georgiana Stehli’s triumphant progress from autistic and functionally retarded to gifted. When mothers from all over the country contacted Annabel and told their stories, she put them in touch with one another, forming The Parent’s Network, and inspired them to do as she had done: to defy the negative prognoses of the experts and to fight for their children with Autism, Pervasive Developmental Delay (PDD), Attention Deficit and Central Auditory Processing Disorder (ADD and CAPD), Dyslexia, and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. In curing Georgie’s painful hearing, her most distressing symptom, a new intervention called auditory training made it possible for her to enjoy communication and to excel academically. There are many Georgies now, ready to take their place among their peers without a label, with a future as bright as any child’s. The interest sparked by The Sound of a Miracle resulted in the founding of The Georgiana Organization, the validation of auditory training as a thoroughly researched treatment modality, and avalability worldwide.
