Kate Rankin

Growing Up Severely Autistic

They Call Me Gabriel

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Produktbeschreibung

Gabriel is a teenager who is severely autistic: he is completely unsocialized, is incontinent and is unable to speak. In this book his mother, with great honesty, describes what it is like to bring up an autistic child who requires constant care and exhibits challenging behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781853028915
• ISBN-10: 1853028916
• Artikelnr.: 21146156

Autorenporträt

Kate Rankin lives in Hertfordshire and is the mother of three sons, one of whom has severe autism.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. 1. My name is Gabriel. 2. Everyday autism. 3. `Sweet are the uses
of adversity', or, every stick has two ends. 4. More life and times on
Planet Autism. 5. `When did you know?' 6. A cuckoo in the nest. 7. New
school. 8. Growing up, or, fitting a square peg in a round hole. 9. `But
the greatest of these is charity.' 10. Many happy returns of the day. 11.
Cousin Mary, Victor of Aveyron, and Peter the wild boy. 12. Autism: What is
it? What causes it? What can be done about it? 13. `Of my life story I know
only the middle, not the beginning nor the end.' 14. Dark days. 15. Shit
happens. 16. Turkeys don't cry. 17. A free spirit. List of quotations.