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IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
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"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
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[2009]
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A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
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[1991]
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Like many mothers of autistic children, Annabel Stehli suffered from the long-held medical belief that her daughter Georgie's condition was somehow caused by inadequate mothering. For years, well-meaning but often misguided friends and doctors encouraged Stehli to institutionalize Georgie, a child who seemed to exist on a different plane where she had neither the inclination to play with other children nor the need to be hugged by her parents. But...
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