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7+ YearsISBN 13 | 9780197683842 |
ISBN 10 | 197683843 |
Author | Senior Lecturer Amy S F Lutz |
Language | English |
Book Description | "In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years o |
About the Author | Amy S. F. Lutz, PhD, is a historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written about severe autism for many platforms, including The Atlantic, Slate, Spectrum, and Psychology Today, as well as in two previous books: We Walk: Life with Severe Autism (2020) and Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children (2014). She is Vice President of the National Council on Severe Autism and lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and five children. Read more |
Publication Date | 2023-10-03 |
Number of Pages | 192 pages |
Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disab