Autism heroes : portraits of families meeting the challenge / Barbara Firestone ; forewords by Teddi and Gary Cole and Catherine Lord ; photography by Joe Buissink
Published
London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007
Preliminaries; contents; Dignity; Hope; Opportunity; Love; Afterword; Selected Reading for Families; About The Help Group
Summary
Bronze Medal Winner in the 2008 IPPY awards. Few have the combination of compassion, rigorous knowledge, passion for the field, and accomplishments in helping literally thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders as does Barbara Firestone. She is also an extraordinary listener, and a great observer of people, making her perspectives and collection of family stories coupled with Joe Buissink's photography extremely rich, inspiring, and instructive.". Michael O'Hanlon. Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. Parent of a Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. "Autism and Asperge
