It concerns the development of her second son, Dov, who started expressing autistic characteristics around age two, and how she used the pseudoscientific technique rapid prompting method with him and believes it has helped him.

Iverson heard about an autistic boy named Tito who lived in Bangalore with his mother, Soma Mukhopadhyay.

In the end, Iverson believed Mukhopadhyay's rapid prompting method helped Dov start communicating with her.

[5][6] Ernst VanBergeijk of Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders found it disappointing that Iverson briefly mentioned that Dov began expressing autistic characteristics following vaccination, stating, "This causal impression does a disservice to families" because of "mountains of data finding no causal link between vaccines and autism".

[8] Regis Schilken of Blogcritics said, "Strange Son should be read by psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, counselors, and at all costs, by politicians who must provide money for autism research.