Connecting with Max: How Medication Closed the Gap between a Family and Their Son with Autism (The ORP Library)

When Max was four, he was diagnosed with PDD-NOS--pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified. Diana and Aaron, his parents, thought the news couldn't get any worse. But six years later, Max was re-diagnosed with autism. He is low functioning, barely verbal, and when he becomes frustrated or overwhelmed--which happens often--he hurts himself or others. Now, at twelve, Max is nearly Diana's size, and much larger than his two younger brothers. Diana and Aaron have a difficult ch...