| Description |
1 online resource (192) |
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Mayborn literary nonfiction series ; no. 3 |
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Mayborn literary nonfiction series ; no. 3.
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| Contents |
Cover13; -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Wished upon a Star -- Quirky Ben -- Diagnosis -- Sunrise -- Sunset -- Photos -- Sit, Quiet Hands, Look at Me -- The Benjamin Project -- Expect a Miracle -- Progress and Challenges -- Sue, Me, and Ben -- Doctors to the Rescue -- Ben At School -- Cold War -- Aftershocks -- Over the Rainbow -- Going Home |
| Summary |
Saving Ben is the story of one family coping with autism, told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his son's strange behavior and rescue him from a downward spiral. Ben's father, Dan Burns, puts the reader in the passenger's seat as he struggles with medical service providers, the school system, extended family, and his own limitations in his efforts to pull Ben out of his darkening world. Ben, now 21 years old, is a work in progress. The full force and fury of the autism storm have passed. Using new biomedical treatments, repair work is underway. Saving Ben is a story of Ben's journey toward recovery, and a family's story of loss, grief, and healing |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Burns, Ben, 1987-
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Burns, Dan E. (Dan Eric), 1945-
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| SUBJECT |
Burns, Ben, 1987- fast |
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Burns, Dan E. (Dan Eric), 1945- fast |
| Subject |
Autism -- Texas
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Autistic children -- Texas -- Biography
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Autistic youth -- Texas -- Biography
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Fathers and sons -- Texas -- Biography
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Parents of autistic children -- Texas -- Biography
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Autism
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Autistic children
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Autistic youth
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Fathers and sons
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Parents of autistic children
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Texas
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009010163 |
| ISBN |
9781574413366 |
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1574413368 |
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1282889737 |
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9781282889736 |
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9786612889738 |
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661288973X |
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1441678670 |
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9781441678676 |
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