Finding Ben

Name: Finding Ben
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ISBN: 9780071425506

ISBN-10: 0071425500

ISBN-13: 9780071425506

Edition: 2004

Authors: Barbara LaSalle

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Barbara LaSalle's first son, Ben, was an extraordinarily gifted child. For the first few years of his life, he amazed his mother with his brilliance and creativity, speaking in full sentences before age one and reading competently by age two. Yet lurking beneath this boy genius's amazing abilities were a crippling social aloofness and a fear of change. Ben had an encyclopedic mind -- he could memorize maps of big cities, storing information like a mini-computer -- but his face and voice showed no emotion. Losing her child to his own inner world, LaSalle's joy of motherhood soon turned to misery, resentment, and guilt. For years, she remained unaware that Ben suffered from Asperger's…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 1/1/2003
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 256
Language: English

Preface	p. xi
In Ben's Words	p. xiii
Prologue	p. 1
A Child Is Born	p. 7
The Pause	p. 11
The Other Mothers	p. 17
Just Like a Real Day	p. 25
Mommy, What's Wrong with Me?	p. 33
Persons and People	p. 39
Player Piano	p. 47
His Own Little World	p. 55
Batter Up!	p. 65
The Adventures of the Sneezer and the Kerchief	p. 77
The Middle of Imagination	p. 85
The Streets of San Francisco	p. 91
The Big City and the Giant Spaceship	p. 97
Losing It	p. 103
All I Had to Do	p. 109
How Was Your Day?	p. 119
Driving for Everyone	p. 131
Fire!	p. 141
The Nut House	p. 149
Transitional Living	p. 153
Request Denied	p. 161
Four-Point Restraints	p. 171
How Do You Plead?	p. 181
Endless, Sparkling Ammonia-Bleached Corridors	p. 191
Passes	p. 203
The Happiest Day	p. 211
Family Ties	p. 223
Asperger's Syndrome	p. 229
Now What?	p. 239
Living Under Ben's Skin	p. 247
The Token of the Turmoil	p. 251
Finding Ben	p. 263
Afterword	p. 271
Recommended Resources	p. 273
Acknowledgments	p. 277
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