Siblings and Autism

Stories Spanning Generations and Cultures
Herausgeber: Cumberland, Debra; Mills, Bruce

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of personal accounts, siblings from a variety of backgrounds share their experiences of growing up with a brother or sister with autism. They show that certain things are common to the "sibling experience: being overlooked; accommodating resentment, and helplessness; and the yearning to connect across neurological difference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781849058315
• ISBN-10: 1849058318
• Artikelnr.: 30358090

Autorenporträt

Edited by Debra L. Cumberland and Bruce E. Mills

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 'House on the Meadow'
Catherine Anderson. 'Family Resemblance'
Erika Nanes. 'Visiting Becky'
Anne Barnhill. 'On the Way to the Sky'
Katie Harrington Stricklin. 'Victim of Silence'
Ann Damiano. 'Life with Runi'
Aparna Das. 'Autism Connects Us'
Matthew Belmonte. 'My Brother's Speaker'
Debra Eder. 'We Were Beautiful
Once: My Autistic-American Family'
Maureen McDonnell. 'Holding On'
Lindsey Fisch. 'Our Family Has Two Hearts: Me and My Older Sister Ge'
Helen McCabe and Chuan Wu. 'Robie'
Erika Reich Giles. 'Everyone is Different'
Cara Murphy Watkins'. 'Sisters Aren't Doing It for Themselves: Negotiating Special Identities in a Disabled Family'
Alison Wilde. 'This Night Will Pass'
Thomas Caramagno. 'Sirens'
Debra Cumberland.