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Saving Ben [electronic resource] : a father's story of autism / by Dan E. Burns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Dan E. (Dan Eric), 1945-
- Series:
- Mayborn literary nonfiction series ; no. 3.
- Mayborn literary nonfiction series ; no. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parents of autistic children--Texas--Biography.
- Parents of autistic children.
- Autistic children--Texas--Biography.
- Autistic children.
- Autistic youth--Texas--Biography.
- Autistic youth.
- Fathers and sons--Texas--Biography.
- Fathers and sons.
- Autism--Texas.
- Autism.
- Burns, Dan E. (Dan Eric), 1945-.
- Burns, Dan E.
- Burns, Ben, 1987-.
- Burns, Ben.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press : Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Autism is a devastating neurological disorder that profoundly affects a person's language and social development. This book presents 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.
- Contents:
- The storm. Wished upon a star ; Quirky Ben ; Diagnosis
- The journey ; Sunrise ; Sunset
- Oz. 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
- Never give up. Over the rainbow
- Going home.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-88973-7
- 9786612889738
- 1-57441-336-8
- 1-4416-7867-0
- OCLC:
- 746578394
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