Lucy Blackman

Lucy's Story

Theoretical and Research Studies Into the Experience of Remediable and Enduring Cognitive Losses

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Produktbeschreibung

Born with Autism, Lucy could not understand much of what was said around her. As an adult she still barely speaks. But her ambition was to write a book. Through writing at high school she started to understand her own autism. She eventually came to type on a computer with no physical support to complete her BA (Hons) in Literary Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781843100423
• ISBN-10: 1843100428
• Artikelnr.: 21670948

Autorenporträt

Lucy Blackman was born in Melbourne, Australia. Between 1987 and 1993, the years in which several of these stories are set, she divided her time between the Mornington Peninsula which backs onto the Great Southern Ocean, and the city suburbs. Lucy now lives in Brisbane, Queensland.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Note. Foreword by Dr Tony Attwood. Glossary. Prologue. April 1992-June 1993. Chapter 1. Little Lucy: Taste
Touch and Tantrums. Chapter 2. Little Lucy: Vision and Voids. Chapter 3. Little Lucy: The Glass Carillon. Chapter 4. Little Lucy Goes to School. Chapter 5. Big Lucy
1986: Age 10-14. Chapter 6. Language Without Speech: Age 14. Chapter 7 Life with Typed Language
1987: Age 14. Chapter 8. The New Me
August 1987-June 1988: Age 16-17. Chapter 9. More About Me
High School 1988-1989: Age 16-17. Chapter 10. Family Matters
Summer 1989-1990: Age 17. Chapter 11. School Matters
1990: Age 17. Chapter 12. Curriculum and Communication
1990: Age 17. Chapter 13. Typing and Talking
1990: Age 17-18. Chapter 14. A Question of Touch
1991: Age 18. Chapter 15. Looking to the Future
1991: Age 19. Chapter 16. Going to America
October 1991-January 1992. Chapter 17. Earphones and Reggae
January 1992. Chapter 18 An Exciting
Frightening Journey
January-February 1992. Chapter 19. Mapping My Enchanted World
February 1992. Chapter 20. The Lens of the Kaleidoscope
March 1992. Afterword by Dr Tony Attwood.