In a different key the story of autism
"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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Autism's first child (1930s-1960s). Donald ; A menace to society ; Case 1 ; Wild children and holy fools ; Doubly loved and protected ; Some kind of genius
- The blame game (1960s-1980s). The refrigerator mother ; Prisoner 15209 ; Kanner's fault ; Biting her tongue ; Mothers-in-arms ; The agitator ; Home on a Monday afternoon
- The end of institutions (1970s-1990s). "Behind the walls of the world's indifference" ; The right to education ; Getting on the bus ; Seeing the ocean for the first time
- Behavior, analyzed (1950s-1990s). The behaviorist ; "Screams, slaps, and love" ; The aversion to aversives ; The "anti-Bettelheim" ; 47 percent ; Look at me ; From courtroom to classroom
- The questions asked in London (1960s-1990s). The questions asked ; Who counts? ; Words unstrung ; The great twin chase ; Finding their marbles
- Redefining a diagnosis (1970s-1990s). The autism spectrum ; The Austrian ; The signature
- Dreams and boundaries (1980s-1990s). The dream of language ; The child within ; An elusive definition ; Meeting of the minds ; The magic man
- How autism became famous (1980s-1990s). Putting autism on the map ; Society's emergency
- "Epidemic" (1990s-2010). The vaccine scare ; Autism speaks ; A story unravels ; The greatest fraud
- Today. Finding a voice ; Neurodiversity ; A happy man.
