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Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism

Resource Type

Book - Parent

Description

Product Description "Reprising her own now classic work The Siege, which covered the early years of her autistic daughters life, Clara Claiborne Park gives us a moving, eloquent portrait of Jessy as an autistic adultstill struggling with language, with hypersensitivities and obsessions, and with the social interactions that most of us take for granted, but at the same time achieving more than her parents could have ever hoped for, becoming an accomplished artist, and growing into an active member of her family and community."

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)

Languages

English

ISBN

0-316-69117-8

Author

Clara Claiborne Park

Publication

2002 Back Bay Books

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