Reviews and Blog Posts: autism

I have read three books lately. In The Anti-Romantic Child, Priscilla Gilman who is an expert on the poet, Wadsworth, intertwines his poetry as she describes her journey as a mother of a son with special needs. Elizabeth Bonker is an adolescent who has autism and writes poetry, though she is unable to speak. I Am in Here describes her life and how her parents have helped her.

• Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism (1995)
• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (2005)
• The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's (2008)
• Animals Make Us H