In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
by:
John Donvan (author)
Caren Zucker (author)
Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9780307985682
ASIN: B00WPQ0NY0
Publish date: 2016-01-19
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
I feel I must give the warning that the way most of the population with autism, and most people with mental disabilities, have been treated in the past was awful until recently. This book is about that history. We have come a long way from what used to common in terms of care and treatment of this p...
I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.I wasn't really sure what to expect from this mammoth of a book, but I was pleasantly surprised. This is an amazingly detailed and thorough history of autism and the autism spectrum. While this is a book of nonficti...
Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of t...
The best biographies (or histories) are those which transcend the story that is being told. One does not even have to be interested in Autism to appreciate fully what the authors have done with this book. The arc of the story is tied together by how our understanding of the nature of Autism has chan...
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