Valerie Paradiz

Elijah's Cup (eBook, ePUB)

A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, coming to terms with and ultimately embracing the strange beauty of her son Elijah's special neurological disorder, which was diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. In Elijah's Cup, Paradiz tells the powerful story of her family's struggle with her son's disease, one characterized by social awkwardness, literal-mindedness, and a fixation with particular subjects and interests. Like attention deficit disorder (ADD), dyslexia, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, Asperger's has exploded in diagnosis in the last decade, reconfiguring the known incidence of autism in the population with estimates as high as one in fifty people.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, I, LT, L, LR, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743235808
• Artikelnr.: 37826586

Autorenporträt

Valerie Paradiz was born in Colorado and has lived and worked in Germany and Japan. For several years she has taught literature and writing at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. She lives with her son in Woodstock, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Elijah's Cup
CHAPTER 2 The Gift of Loss
CHAPTER 3 Perfect Strangers
CHAPTER 4 The Coincidence of Sharron Loree
CHAPTER 5 Nietzsche in the Bathtub
CHAPTER 6 My Father Was a Yakker
CHAPTER 7 Echolalia Fun Fun Fun
CHAPTER 8 Balloon Days
CHAPTER 9 Cartoons Don't Get Hurt
CHAPTER 10 Life Under Glass
CHAPTER 11 Playground Comedian
CHAPTER 12 Cracking Code
Web Sites by and for Autistic People and for Autistic Advocacy
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index