How Can I Talk If My Lips Dont Move

Author : Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628720271
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move? written by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the “problem” by teaching him to read and write. The result was that between the ages of eight and eleven he wrote stories and poems of exquisite beauty, which Dr. Oliver Sacks called “amazing and shocking.” Their eloquence gave lie to all our assumptions about autism. Here Tito goes even further and writes of how the autistic mind works, how it views the outside world and the “normal” people he deals with daily, how he tells his stories to the mirror and hears stories back, how sounds become colors, how beauty fills his mind and heart. With this work, Tito—whom Portia Iversen, co-founder of Cure Autism Now, has described as “a window into autism such as the world has never seen”—gives the world a beacon of hope. For if he can do it, why can’t others? “Brave, bold, and deeply felt, this book shows that much we might have believed about autism can be wrong.”—Boston Globe

Author : Arthur Fleischmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439194165
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carly's Voice written by Arthur Fleischmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this international bestseller, father and advocate for Autism awareness Arthur Fleischmann blends his daughter Carly’s own words with his story of getting to know his remarkable daughter—after years of believing that she was unable to understand or communicate with him. At the age of two, Carly Fleischmann was diagnosed with severe autism and an oral motor condition that prevented her from speaking. Doctors predicted that she would never intellectually develop beyond the abilities of a small child. Carly remained largely unreachable through the years. Then, at the age of ten, she had a breakthrough. While working with her devoted therapists, Carly reached over to their laptop and typed “HELP TEETH HURT,” much to everyone’s astonishment. Although Carly still struggles with all the symptoms of autism, she now has regular, witty, and profound conversations on the computer with her family and her many thousands of supporters online. One of the first books to explore firsthand the challenges of living with autism, Carly’s Voice brings readers inside a once-secret world in the company of an inspiring young woman who has found her voice and her mission

Author : Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : National Autistic Society
ISBN 13 : 9781899280315
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Silence written by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and published by National Autistic Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823242064
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loaded Words written by Marjorie Garber and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Loaded Words the inimitable literary and cultural critic Marjorie Garber invites readers to join her in a rigorous and exuberant exploration of language. What links the pieces included in this vibrant new collection is the author’s contention that all words are inescapably loaded—that is, highly charged, explosive, substantial, intoxicating, fruitful, and overbrimming—and that such loading is what makes language matter. Garber casts her keen eye on terms from knowledge, belief, madness, interruption, genius, and celebrity to humanities, general education, and academia. Included here are an array of stirring essays, from the title piece, with its demonstration of the importance of language to our thinking about the world; to the superb “Mad Lib,” on the concept of madness from Mad magazine to debates between Foucault and Derrida; to pieces on Shakespeare, “the most culturally loaded name of our time,” and the Renaissance. With its wide range of cultural references and engaging style coupled with fresh intellectual inquiry, Loaded Words will draw in and enchant scholars, students, and general readers alike.

Author : Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1628722150
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind Tree written by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-received on initial publication, The Mind Tree is truly an enthralling read. Although he is severely autistic and nearly nonverbal, Tito’s ability to communicate through his extraordinary writing is astonishing. At the age of three, Tito was diagnosed with severe autism. But his mother, with boundless hope and determination, read to him and taught him to write in English. She also challenged him to write his own stories. The result of their efforts is this remarkable book—written when he was eight to eleven years old—comprised of profound and startling philosophical prose and poetry. During a New York Times interview, Tito scrawled on a yellow pad, “I need to write . . . It has become a part of me.”

Author : Naoki Higashida
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812994876
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reason I Jump written by Naoki Higashida and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read. It’s truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Wall Street Journal • Bloomberg Business • Bookish FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE FIRST BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again. In his introduction, bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki’s words allowed him to feel, for the first time, as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind. “It is no exaggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship.” This translation was a labor of love by David and his wife, KA Yoshida, so they’d be able to share that feeling with friends, the wider autism community, and beyond. Naoki’s book, in its beauty, truthfulness, and simplicity, is a gift to be shared. Praise for The Reason I Jump “This is an intimate book, one that brings readers right into an autistic mind.”—Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice) “Amazing times a million.”—Whoopi Goldberg, People “The Reason I Jump is a Rosetta stone. . . . This book takes about ninety minutes to read, and it will stretch your vision of what it is to be human.”—Andrew Solomon, The Times (U.K.) “Extraordinary, moving, and jeweled with epiphanies.”—The Boston Globe “Small but profound . . . [Higashida’s] startling, moving insights offer a rare look inside the autistic mind.”—Parade

Author : Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477126384
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm Not a Poet But I Write Poetry written by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, a leading poet (though he does not acknowledge it) and memoirist of the experience of autism, was born in India in 1988. Tito was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of three, but his mother Soma, with fi erce hope and determination, devised an intensive rapid prompting method to teach Tito to read and write. In 2001, Tito and his mother came to the United States to begin work collaborating with doctors, re-searchers, and advocates in order to better understand and support individuals with autism. At a very early age, Tito began expressing himself in prose and poetry and numerous collections of his work have been published (see below). More recently, Tito has become a leading fi gure in the neurodiversity movement, challenging conventional measures of mental states and abilities. As Tito describes himself: "Human beings have classifi ed each other based on religion, country, disorders and of course in today's world their sexual choices. It is easy to recognize each other based on classifi cation. Hence, doctors have classifi ed me with Autism." Tito's life and work have been featured widely in the media, including "Sixty Minutes","Good Morning America," The New York Times, Scientifi c American, National Geographic, PBS, CNN, Disability Studies Quarterly and in the documentaries Tito's Story (BBC, 1999) and A Mother's Courage (HBO, 2010) Tito now lives in Austin, Texas, where his mother directs the autism organization HALO http://www.halo-soma.org and Tito and his mother make frequent presentations to autism education and advocacy organizations nationwide.

Author : Rick Maurer
Publisher : Bard Press
ISBN 13 : 1885167822
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Don't You Want What I Want? written by Rick Maurer and published by Bard Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Maurer introduces you to a high integrity process that engages you and the other person in creating outcomes you both fully support. He shows you how to turn resistance into support and use 6 principles of engagement to help you persuade while you build the relationship and get your ideas put into action.

Author : Nan Goodman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691011998
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifting the Blame written by Nan Goodman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, Nan Goodman investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America. By looking at accidents and accident law in the industrializing society, Goodman shows how courts moved away from the doctrine of strict liability to a new notion of liability that emphasized fault and negligence. Shifting the Blame reveals the pervasive impact of this radically new theory of responsibility in understandings of industrial hazards, in manufacturing dangers, and in the stories that were told and retold about accidents. In exciting tales of the actions of "good Samaritans" or of sea, steamboat, or railroad accidents, features of risk that might otherwise escape our attention--such as the suddenness of impact, the encounter between strangers, and the debates over blame and responsibility--were reconstructed in a manner that revealed both imagined and actual solutions to one of the most difficult philosophical and social conflicts in the nineteenth-century United States. Through literary and legal stories of accidents, Goodman suggests, we learn a great deal about what Americans thought about blame, injury, and individual responsibility in one of the most formative periods of our history.

Author : Adam Mardero
Publisher : Latitude 46
ISBN 13 : 9781988989358
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Adam Mardero and published by Latitude 46. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Mardero was diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of nine, and began the journey to understand his differences and the label that would define his life. Uncommon Sense is a vulnerable and insightful exploration of a boy growing into a young man while battling a label and the misunderstandings that arise from being on the spectrum. Through the perspective of his geek world, Adam shares the challenges faced after being labeled and how he found his voice as an activist for neurodiverse young people.