John Donvan
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 670 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary narrative history of autism: the riveting story of parents fighting for their children ’s civil rights; of doctors struggling to define autism; of ingenuity, self-advocacy, and profound social change. Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood...