A comprehensive guide for helping children overcome language and speech problems that offers advice on recognizing common disorders, choosing a specialist, understanding the various methods of treatment, and other related topics.

"With unflinching candor, Martin describes the chilling details of life as a secretly lucid vegetable--from the perversion of some who believed him to be brain dead, to the grace of those who sought recognition in his eyes"-- They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept...