Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism - Softcover

Nazeer, Kamran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582346208 ISBN 13: 9781582346205

Verlag: Bloomsbury, 2007

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Book by Nazeer Kamran

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In 1982, when he was four years old, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a special school alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves the Idiots, these kids received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Now a policy adviser in England, Kamran decides to visit four of his old classmates to find out the kind of lives that they are living now, how much they’ve been able to overcome—and what remains missing.
 
Bringing to life the texture of autistic lives and the limitations that the condition presents, Nazeer also relates the ways in which those can be eased over time, and with the right treatment.Using his own experiences to examine such topics as the difficulties of language, conversation as performance, and the politics of civility, Send in the Idiots is also a rare and provocative exploration of the way that people—all people—learn to think and feel. Written with unmatched insight and striking personal testimony, Kamran Nazeer’s account is a stunning, invaluable, and utterly unique contribution to the literature of what makes us human.
 

Biografía del autor

Kamran Nazeer grew up in New York, Jeddah, Islamabad, and Glasgow. He has a PhD in Legal Philosophy from Oxford and currently works as a Policy Advisor for the British government. He has published work in U.K. newspapers and magazines.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1582346208
• ISBN 13: 9781582346205
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230