Naoki Higashida, a thirteen-year-old autistic boy, demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds by answering more than fifty questions. The text is translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell.
A journey into the mind of a remarkable thirteen-year-old Japanese boy with severe autism shares firsthand insights into a variety of experiences associated with the disorder, from behavioral traits and misconceptions to perceptions about the world.
Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members wh…
Written by a thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this memoir demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out lou…
Everyone seems to agree that we have an epidemic of what is diagnosed as autism. But, in the history of our society, there has never been an epidemic of any developmental or genetic disorder. Yet, over the span of thirty years, autism has gone from affecting one in 5,000 childre…
This work outlines the exact strategy used, developed over a number of years, which enabled autistic pupils to achieve their full potential. The book revisits the journeys of individual students who were encouraged by a culture of optimism and hopefulness, many of whom are now i…
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The ability to perceive accurately stimuli in the environment is basic to many areas of academic, communicative and social functioning. Although people with autism live in the same physical world and deal with the same 'raw material' their perceptual world turns out strikingly d…