Ellen Notbohm

Ellen’s personal experiences as a parent of children with autism and ADHD, a celebrated autism author, and a contributor to numerous publications, classrooms, conferences, and websites around the world coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical roles adult perspectives play in guiding the child with autism to a meaningful, self-sufficient, productive life.

A bonus section includes ten more essential, thought-provoking "things" to share with young people on the spectrum as they cross the threshold of adulthood, and an appendix of more than seventy questions suitable for group discussion or self-reflection. This new edition sounds an even more resonant call to action, carrying the reader farther into understanding the needs and the potential of every child with autism. Selected Reading Questionnaire.… (más)

The River by Starlight is a tale told in the early 1900s to the mid 1900s. It tells of the hardships of people that lived during that time, dealing with mental illness, whooping cough, financial hardship, farming ups and downs, and marriage between two volatile people.
Analiese Rushton lives in Iowa, but longs to leave and live with her brother, Cal, in Montana. Analiese (Annie) is a divorcee, with a young daughter who lives with Annie's ex-husband and his new wife. Annie regrets that she gave up her daughter, but she was unable to care for the child, as Annie suffered with severe postpartum depression.
When Annie moves to Montana, she meets Adam Fielding. There is an immediate spark between them, but Annie is nervous about her past. Adam courts her and after she tells him of her past trouble, they marry. Adam is extremely jealous of anyone who shows interest in Annie. Their marriage has its ups and downs, and soon comes to a heartbreaking point.
When Annie is sent away, Adam doesn't know what to do, nor how to handle things. Through a series of incidents, including financial troubles, they are farther and farther from each other.
This story tells of the story of Annie and Adam, their heartbreak, their sorrows, their triumphs, and the lives they lived.
The story is loosely based on real people.
It is heartbreaking and hopeful, at the same time. It deals with the issues of mental illness and how they were handled in the beginning of the 20th century.
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Every well-wrought sentence in The River by Starlight is as beautiful as the Henry David Thoreau inspired title. Author Ellen Notbohm has penned a breathlessly epic, masterful story set in early 1900’s Montana in language so lyrically elevated you’ll want to commit much of it to memory but will have to get back to it later—you’ll be too busy turning the pages.
The River by Starlight is a starkly humanistic story. It’s an historical novel intimately and engagingly written in present tense concerning the sweeping life story of dark-haired and diminutive Annie Rushton, whose young marriage is permanently marred by what might be the time’s inchoate perceptions of post-partum depression. There are repercussions to Annie’s malady that propel her to leave everything behind in her home state of Iowa and hop a train to join her bachelor brother in the wilds of homesteading Montana, where she risks starting a new life. Shouldering her heartbreak, Annie applies her headstrong, fierce independence to helping her brother prosper, so when charismatic businessman Adam Fielding, a colleague of her brother’s, enters her life, theirs is a relationship forged on mutual ambition, but as the years wear on, they become two desperate souls unwittingly tossed by the unpredictable storms of life.… (más)