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Acknowledgments:

I wish to acknowledge and thank Kathy Blanco, of Beaverton, Oregon, USA (www.yahoogroups.com/group/interven) for introducing me to the Internet experience of counseling autism, and who has provided sources for much of what I have brought to you.

Polly Hattemar has contributed much over the years to my knowledge and understanding.

I also wish to acknowledge and thank Paula Reza, of Scotland, UK, for her suggestion that I write this type of paper, and for her insightful and helpful encouragement, and for many of the ideas included. It was she who introduced me to the condition labeled PST, and asked my help in addressing it.

I appreciate Audrey Adams, of Renton, Washington, for her contributions to this paper and to the Autism List, Williss.

I thank all three for the openness and willingness to try many of my suggestions, and to share many of their successful interventions that I have included. I appreciate, too, their willingness to introduce these ideas to friends in the autism community. I’m happy to report that their children have responded remarkably well to many of the ideas included herein.

Andy Cutler, and Jeff Clark of Metals Board at www.telelists.com, and numerous others have contributed bits and pieces.

Credit is given to the following who were not interviewed, but the quotes are faithfully taken from their published literature:

• Susan Owens for her valuable contributions to my understanding of GAGs, CCK, and Motilin. (From the 1998 Durham Conference “Psychobiology of Autism”: Explorations of the New Frontier between Gut and Brain: A look at GAGs, CCK and Motilin by Susan Costen Owens, University of Texas at Dallas, http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/owens.html);

• to Patricia Kane, BodyBio Centre, 45 Reese Road, Millville, NJ 0833 for her information on fatty acids;

• to Dr. Robert J. Sinaiko, MD, for quotes from his paper “The Biochemistry of Attentional/Behavioral Problems”,

• to Henry Osiecki, B Sc (Hons) Grad Dip Nutr Diet,

• to Dr. Woody McGinnis. MD, formerly of Tucson, Arizona,

• to Dr. Mary Megson,

• to Bernard Windham, Chemical Engineer,

• to Dr. Doris Rapp, MD, and

• to Vijendra Singh, Ph.D., Utah State University, Logan, Utah for the quotes herein;

• however, none of these may agree with the final product :-).

I thank also Jon and Polly Tommey of England for publishing an earlier version of this paper as a bound insert in the third edition (Spring 2000) of their remarkable magazine, “The Autism File” (www.autismfile.com).

My contribution was to put it all into a useable format as an aid to suffering mothers who have been left largely without guidance in this troubling malady.