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'Dr James Best sold the family home and left his wife and two eldest children in Sydney to take his fourteen-year-old autistic son Sam travelling to places as unfamiliar as Africa, southern Europe and India. With routines left behind, it was the ideal time for Sam to take on challenges and learn to cope with the real world. It was envisaged that Sam would eventually make the decisions on where they would go, how to get there, where to stay and all the myriad of other choices anyone has to make when travelling for an extended period. The hope was that Sam, who previously had difficulty making his way to the corner shop, would learn from these alien experiences how to navigate the unexpected with confidence. Their journey together is of huge interest to the growing number of people whose lives have been touched by autism, and to parents everywhere.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
Type of disability Autism. Type of character Primary. Point of view First person (autobiographical, not the disabled character).
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Works about this Work
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Seeing Past the Wall of Autism
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 November 2017; (p. 20)'In the mid-20th century, Hungarian-born psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim popularised the theory that autism was caused by 'refrigerator mothers': cold, unfeeling parents who pushed their children into an isolated state.' (Introduction)
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Seeing Past the Wall of Autism
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 November 2017; (p. 20)'In the mid-20th century, Hungarian-born psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim popularised the theory that autism was caused by 'refrigerator mothers': cold, unfeeling parents who pushed their children into an isolated state.' (Introduction)
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