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Teenage boy, “slightly autistic,” is arrested on charges of murdering his mother and then tracks down the real killers…….
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While Cure Autism Now (CAN) co-founder and autism mother Portia Iversen’s just-published book Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism charts her journey to help her autistic son Dov by learning everything she can about the science of autism and the latest scientific research, references […]
[The following is an excerpt from “Fractioned Idiom: Metonymy and the Language of Autism,” an essay I have written about poetry and autism that will be published in Autism and Representation, ed. Mark Osteen (Routledge Press, forthcoming 2007).]
Tito Mukhopadhyay’s writing has been seen as exceptional due to the severity of his autism and his language […]
Has it ever happened to you that you’ve met some individual, some therapist or teacher, who seemed to be the one person who could connect with your child, help him or her to talk or make some great gain? Some one person who seemed to have some almost, magical, miraculous skill to help your child?
Portia […]
A new book about autism and a mother from India: You think, “I’ve already read about that here—-Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker, an anthropologist at George Washington University and father of Isabel, who has autism?
But it is a different new autism book I am referring to, one that is […]
The website for autism father and anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker’s forthcoming book Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism is up, at http://www.unstrange.com. You can read an excerpt (the book’s introduction) as well as a brief summary on Unstrange.com, which also contains resources of a kind that are unique about autism.
In his book, Grinker […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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