Boy Who Loved Windows Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism

Name: Boy Who Loved Windows Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism
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ISBN: 9780738209661

ISBN-10: 073820966X

ISBN-13: 9780738209661

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Authors: Patricia Stacey

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In 1997, writer Patricia Stacey and her husband, Cliff, learned that their six-month-old son, Walker, might never walk or talk, or even hear or see. Unwilling to accept this grim prognosis, they embarked on a five-year odyssey that took them into alternative medicine and the newest brain research-and toward a new understanding of autism. Finally this search brought them to pioneering developmental psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who helped them save their son and bring him into full contact with the world. At once heart-wrenching and hopeful, Patricia Stacey's enthralling memoir traces the experience of a remarkable family who struggled courageously in order to give their son a rich and…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments





Sirens


You'll Have to Wait


Grasping





What's in a Face


The World Is Too Much


Reciprocity


The Brain Doesn't Wait


The Game


The Body Is a Map





The Questions That Haunted Us


New Clues


A Walk Around the Driveway


The Epidemic





Through a Door in the Wall


A Challenge, a Game, a Vocation, a Sentence


Begin with Desire


Tyranny of Attention


Partly Heard Song


Words


The Specter of Loss


Ways to Make a Salad


The Ladder


To Paradise Pond


Exotic Poisons, Unusual Connections


Through Another Door in the Wall





Imagining the World


A Close Call


Companions


A Searchlight


The Senses Revisited





I Have a Prob'em


Epiphany


What Wrecks This World


A Car Turning Off the Road


Eyes of a Stranger


The Fate of Babies and Pirates


Epilogue


About the Author