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In a Different Key : the Story of Autism by Donvan, John, Zucker, Caren is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

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Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, *In a Different Key* tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism—by liberating children from dank institutions, campaigning for their right to go to school, challenging expert opinion on what it means to have autism, and persuading society to accept those who are different. It is the story of women like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed cold and rejecting “refrigerator mothers” for causing autism; and of fathers who pushed scientists to dig harder for treatments. Many others played starring roles too: doctors like Leo Kanner, who pioneered our understanding of autism; lawyers like Tom Gilhool, who took the families’ battle for education to the courtroom; scientists who sparred over how to treat autism; and those with autism, like Temple Grandin, Alex Pla

Who reads In a Different Key : the Story of Autism?

Author

Donvan, John, Zucker, Caren

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group, The; Crown; Crown Publishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141973456

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, History

Rating

4.29 / 5 (1,014 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14