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Chasing the intact mind : how the severely autistic and intellectually disabled were excluded from the debates that affect them most /

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"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 old, was completely nonverbal and sp...

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Main Author: Lutz, Amy S. F., 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Autistic people > Social conditions.
Autistic people > Biography.
Developmentally disabled > Social conditions.
Developmentally disabled > Biography.
Parents of autistic children > Biography > History and criticism.
Parents of developmentally disabled children > Biography > History and criticism.
Autistes > Conditions sociales.
Autistes > Biographies.
Personnes atteintes de troubles du développement > Conditions sociales.
Personnes atteintes de troubles du développement > Biographies.
Parents d'enfants autistes > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Parents d'enfants atteints de troubles du développement > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Autism Spectrum Disorders.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS.
History.
MEDICAL.
Psychopathology.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Developmentally disabled > Social conditions
Clinical & internal medicine.
Health and Wellbeing.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: the history of the intact mind
  • Introduction
  • Valuing the disabled child: the emergence of disability parent memoirs
  • Whose fault is it? Psychoanalysis and the first autism parent memoirs
  • Is there a "key"? Biomedical discourse and second-generation autism memoirs
  • Part II: the case studies
  • The fight to eliminate 14(c)
  • The erosion of guardianship
  • The resurgence of facilitated communication.