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Product

A Thorn in My Pocket

Center:

NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD

Fiscal Year:

2008

Contact Information:

Jill Varney
[email protected]
603-862-4320

Product Description:

This book is Eustacia Cutler's story of raising her autistic daughter, Temple Grandin, in the conservative "Leave-it-to-Beaver" world of the fifties, a time when autistic children were routinely diagnosed as "infant schizophrenics" and banished to institutions. She explores the nature of the autism disorder as doctors understand it today, and how its predominant characteristics reflect our own traits in an exaggerated form. She tells of her fight to keep Temple in the mainstream of family, community and school life, and how Temple responded and went on to succeed beyond her wildest dreams!

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