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One of us : a family's life with autism /

A father chronicles the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their autistic son's disability and offers an honest look at a child who does not overcome autism and a family that survives on love.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osteen, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia ; London : University of Missouri Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Parents of autistic children > Biography.
Autistic children > Biography.
Autistic youth > Biography.
Autistic children > Family relationships.
Autistic youth > Family relationships.
Autism in children.
Autistic Disorder
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780826272379
0826272371
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : The other world
  • Part one : Awakenings. Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • The news
  • Jabberwocky
  • Raw timber
  • Golden slumbers
  • The thing with feathers
  • Melting down
  • Holding patterns
  • The Red Queen's race
  • Camp Wonder
  • Part two : Refractions. Urinetown
  • The play of shadows
  • A brief history of stims
  • As others see us
  • In the echo chamber
  • Part three : Emergencies. Fighting words
  • May Day!
  • Departures
  • Returns
  • Nosology
  • Letting go
  • Epilogue : One of us.

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