| Description |
180 pages ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: the history of the intact mind -- Introduction -- Valuing the disabled child: the emergence of disability parent memoirs -- Whose fault is it? Psychoanalysis and the first autism parent memoirs -- Is there a "key"? Biomedical discourse and second-generation autism memoirs -- Part II: the case studies -- The fight to eliminate 14(c) -- The erosion of guardianship -- The resurgence of facilitated communication. |
| Summary |
"In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years old, was completely nonverbal and spent much of his time "chewing on blocks and tapping stones." Although he didn't know the alphabet, colors, or numbers; although he "could hardly point or nod his head to show what he meant"; although doctors had diagnosed Dov as "retarded" and told Iversen she "shouldn't wreck [her] marriage and destroy [her] other children's lives for his sake, when doing so was utterly and completely useless" - although all these things were true about her son, Iversen still imagined him "falling down a deep well, believed to be dead. And then years later, a light shone down that dark shaft and I could see him there, somehow still alive" (emphasis in original)"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Autistic people -- Social conditions.
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Autistic people -- Biography.
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Developmentally disabled -- Social conditions.
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Developmentally disabled -- Biography.
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Parents of autistic children -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Parents of developmentally disabled children -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780197683842 hardcover : $34.95 |
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0197683843 hardcover |
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