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050 00 $aRJ506.A9$bS38 2007
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100 1 $aSavarese, Ralph James.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006045514
245 10 $aReasonable people :$ba memoir of autism & adoption : on the meaning of family and the politics of neurological difference /$cRalph James Savarese.
260 $aNew York :$bOther Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axxxi, 463 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 443-460).
520 1 $a""Why would someone adopt a badly abused, non-speaking, six-year-old from foster care?" the author was asked at the outset of his adoption-as-a-first-resort adventure. Part Love story, part political manifesto about "living with conviction in a cynical time," the memoir traces the development of DJ, a boy written off as profoundly retarded and now, six years later, earning all "A"s at a regular school. Neither a typical saga of autism nor simply a challenge to expert opinion, Reasonable People illuminates the belated emergence of a self in language. And it does so using DJ's own words, expressed through the once discredited but now resurgent technique of facilitated communication (FC)." "Encouraged by new studies showing the technique's efficacy with at least some non-speaking people with autism and by the development of independent typing - those who have weaned themselves from their facilitators' support - Savarese and his wife tried FC with DJ. But first they taught him how to read, painstakingly introducing him to different modes of abstraction: photographs, picture symbols, sign language, and ultimately words. The result is a book that contains much of what DJ typed from age nine to twelve - a rare archive indeed - and concludes with a chapter composed entirely by him."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAutistic children$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113719
650 0 $aParents of autistic children$vBiography.
650 0 $aAutistic children$xCare.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113720
650 0 $aSpecial needs adoption$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aAdopted children$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113365
650 0 $aAdoptive parents$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113718
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0615/2006018901.html
852 00 $bswx$hRJ506.A9$iS38 2007