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Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Swenson's son, Cooper, was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, she experienced the grief of broken dreams. She felt the frustration and exhaustion that comes from having to fight for your child in a world that is stacked against them. A personal transformation led to acceptance, and she became the mother she was truly meant to be. Here Swenson offers support and connection to others on this path. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
ix, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Details how the author and her husband tried to help their twenty-one-year-old autistic son enter into adulthood by teaching him to ride commuter trains on his own in preparation for holding down a job.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who'd long been unable to communicate--until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who'd been trapped inside for more than two decades.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in an attempt to find healing for him. When two-year-old Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer and former horse trainer, and his wife Kristin sought the best possible medical care, but traditional therapies had little effect. They discovered that Rowan has a profound affinity for animals, particularly horses, and the family set off...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A full-length version of the viral "New York Times" op-ed column of the same name shares stories about the author's life with her autistic son, whose therapeutic use of Apple's electronic personal assistant became an unusual example of the power of technology.
Author
Publisher
Kingswell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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....
13) Life, animated
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind suddenly stopped speaking and disappeared into autism. Almost four years passed and the only thing that seemed to engage Owen were Disney films. Then one day his father donned one of his son's puppets--Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin--and asked 'What's it like to be you?' Suddenly, Owen responded to his father using dialogue from the movie ... Life, Animated tells the...
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