Growing up Severely Autistic They Call Me Gabriel

Name: Growing up Severely Autistic They Call Me Gabriel
Price: 29.98 USD
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ISBN: 9781853028915

ISBN-10: 1853028916

ISBN-13: 9781853028915

Edition: 2000

Authors: Kate Rankin

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Gabriel is a teenager who is severely autistic: he is completely unsocialized, is incontinent and is unable to speak. In this book his mother, with great honesty, describes what it is like to bring up an autistic child who requires constant care and exhibits challenging behaviour.Written partly in diary form, Growing Up Severely Autistic covers the minutiae of daily life with vivid immediacy, from preventing Gabriel eating the goldfish, to helping him through his grief on the death of his father. Gabriel's life and relationships with his family are traced from early childhood, through his school days to his entry into residential care at the age of 17. With affection and humour, Kate Rankin…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 5/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.17" wide x 9.12" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English