The Secret Language of Dolphins

It started out interesting enough, but I quickly found myself annoyed by such things as the author refering to her insights as "discoveries" when they might better be termed hypetheses, and untestable at that. Still, with that firmly in mind, the bulk of the book is not so very implausible. Behavior......more

Amazing account of a woman's life "work" through challenges that made great strides in the lives of autistic children quality of life. The most poignant part to me came in the epilogue where this sentence resides, "As long as we accept and respect each other for our divergent beliefs and ways of liv......more

I have to say, this book did not hold my attention, although I did make it through. It seemed to be missing a key component: how exactly did she transfer her knowledge of dolphins to autistic children? It didn’t exactly answer that for me, in this 9.5 hour audiobook. She said she used what she had l......more

I try to keep an open mind on these things but the author is making some bald-faced assertions with no research to back her claims. She's lucky that nobody got killed while they were jacking around with dolphins; expecting them to "teach" humans. The ESP thing was annoying and so was the author's as......more