An account of the author's life with her 12-year-old autistic son, Sam. She describes her attempts to understand him and to communicate with him, and offers her controversial conclusions about what autism is and how to deal with it. The book was shortlisted for the 1990 Odd Fellows Book Award.
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Going that extra mile,
By F. Lyczynska (Neath, West Glamorgan United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Little Boy Lost (Paperback)
A fantastic story of a mother's struggle to understand and meet the needs of her autistic son. I wish there was another follow-up book as I would love to know how Sam is doing now. Bronwyn Hocking seems to have realised that the relative influences of nurture/nature in her son's condition are finally irrelevant. What matters is that she has now done everything in her power to get Sam's needs met, whether or not it goes against current orthodoxy. Her personal journey is inspiring, Sam's even more so.
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Pointless guilt,
By A Customer
This review is from: Little Boy Lost (Paperback)
An odd and depressing book in which a mother explains why she believes herself to be the cause of her son's autism, even though the psychoanalytic account of autism to which she subscribes has been discredited for over twenty years, during which the evidence for the neurological origins of autism has become overwhelming, and people with high-functioning autism (such as Temple Grandin) have spoken out repeatedly to criticise the view of autism as psychogenic.
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Little Boy Lost - Thank You,
By Susan Quinn "Susan" (Gloucestershire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Little Boy Lost (Paperback)
Thank you, Bronwyn. An honest account of your struggle in the dark to find the road to take for Sam's best chance at life. Please, please write a follow-up. Sam is a young man now and there are many of us out here who would love to know how his, and your, life has progressed.
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