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A long-form poem, I Hope Some Lass Will Want Me After Reading All This, followed in 1987. [12] He also started publishing his poems in several autism newsletters in the UK and US. In 1990, an excerpt of his long-form poem was published in an issue of The Advocate, the Autism Society of America's newsletter. [13]
David William Eastham (1963–1988) [1] was a Canadian autistic author and poet. Despite being nonverbal for his entire life, [2] [3] he began learning to type in 1979 using a communication aid and facilitation, reportedly making him the first person with autism to do so. [4]
"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability.The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome.
As an adult with autism, Dr. Kerry Magro fields at least 100 messages a month from parents whose children are the autism spectrum. He got so many questions that Magro, who was once a nonverbal ...
The poetic picture book about autism Benny Doesn't Like to Be Hugged followed in 2017, and On My Block, also a poem, in 2020. Reflecting Elliott's activism in encouraging diverse representations in books, a background character in Benny Doesn't Like to Be Hugged is a Native American boy wearing a t-shirt featuring the comic book character Super ...
Unstrange Minds is a nonfiction book by anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker about the rise in autism diagnoses throughout the world over the last twenty years. It provides a cultural history of autism and describes the experiences of parents of children with autism in the United States, South Korea, India, and South Africa. Along with this ...