Songs Of The Gorilla Nation

Author : Dawn Prince-Hughes
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004689589

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Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes Pdf

"This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment when, as a young woman, she entered the Seattle Zoo and immediately became fascinated with the gorillas. Having suffered from a lifelong inability to relate to people in a meaningful way, Dawn was surprised to find herself irresistibly drawn to these great primates. By observing them and, later, working with them, she was finally able to emerge from her solitude and connect to living beings in a way she had never previously experienced. Songs of the Gorilla Nation is more than a story of autism, it is a paean to all that is important in life. Dawn Prince-Hughes's evocative story will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, forcing us, like the author herself, to rediscover and assess our own understanding of human emotion.

Author : Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Publisher : Crown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400082155

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Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D. Pdf

“This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people’s autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it.” In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment when, as a young woman, she entered the Seattle Zoo and immediately became fascinated with the gorillas. Having suffered from a lifelong inability to relate to people in a meaningful way, Dawn was surprised to find herself irresistibly drawn to these great primates. By observing them and, later, working with them, she was finally able to emerge from her solitude and connect to living beings in a way she had never previously experienced. Songs of the Gorilla Nation is more than a story of autism, it is a paean to all that is important in life. Dawn Prince-Hughes’s evocative story will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, forcing us, like the author herself, to rediscover and assess our own understanding of human emotion.

Author : Dawn Prince-Hughes
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816521506

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Gorillas Among Us by Dawn Prince-Hughes Pdf

Chronicles the days of a gorilla family, offering insight into their diet, communication, behavior, and recreation, provoking human introspection.

Author : Dawn Prince-Hughes
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804010535

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Aquamarine Blue 5 by Dawn Prince-Hughes Pdf

This is the first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggle of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.Dawn

Author : Terry Galloway
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807073315

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Mean Little deaf Queer by Terry Galloway Pdf

In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life performance, Galloway has used theater, whether onstage or off, to defy and transcend her reality. With disarming candor, she writes about her mental breakdowns, her queer identity, and living in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters. What could have been a bitter litany of complaint is instead an unexpectedly hilarious and affecting take on life.

Author : Sally Kirk
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1846428572

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Hope for the Autism Spectrum by Sally Kirk Pdf

When Sally Kirk's son, Will, was diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), she did everything she could to understand his condition and to find ways of improving his quality of life. In this book, Sally shares the story of her journey with Will and how her discovery of biomedical interventions significantly improved his behaviour and changed their lives for the better. Based on personal experience and extensive biomedical research, the book shows how important it is to understand both the child's mind and body, and explores how, when underlying physical problems are treated, brain function and troublesome behaviors often improve. It describes in depth the most common physical problems for those on the autism spectrum and the variety of treatments available such as minimizing exposure to heavy metals and toxins, alterations in diet, and use of vaccinations. This positive, practical book tells a personal story of hope and provides a wealth of essential information on biomedical interventions for parents of children on the autism spectrum. It will also be a useful resource for therapists, medical professionals and adults with autism-spectrum diagnoses.

Author : Luke Jackson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781846423567

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Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome by Luke Jackson Pdf

Part of the Reading Well scheme. 35 books selected by young people and health professionals to provide 13 to 18 year olds with high-quality support, information and advice about common mental health issues and related conditions. Winner of the NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award 2003 Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has learned to laugh at such names but there are other aspects of life which are more difficult. Adolescence and the teenage years are a minefield of emotions, transitions and decisions and when a child has Asperger Syndrome, the result is often explosive. Luke has three sisters and one brother in various stages of their adolescent and teenage years but he is acutely aware of just how different he is and how little information is available for adolescents like himself. Drawing from his own experiences and gaining information from his teenage brother and sisters, he wrote this enlightening, honest and witty book in an attempt to address difficult topics such as bullying, friendships, when and how to tell others about AS, school problems, dating and relationships, and morality. Luke writes briefly about his younger autistic and AD/HD brothers, providing amusing insights into the antics of his younger years and advice for parents, carers and teachers of younger AS children. However, his main reason for writing was because "so many books are written about us, but none are written directly to adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. I thought I would write one in the hope that we could all learn together".

Author : Kathleen M. Blee,Sandra McGee Deutsch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271061719

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Women of the Right by Kathleen M. Blee,Sandra McGee Deutsch Pdf

In Women of the Right, Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch bring together a groundbreaking collection of essays examining women in right-wing politics across the world, from the early twentieth-century white Afrikaner movement in South Africa to the supporters of Sarah Palin today. The volume introduces a truly global perspective on how women matter in the national and transnational links and exchanges of rightist politics. Suitable for classroom use, it sets a new agenda for scholarship on women on the right. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Nancy Aguirre, Karla J. Cunningham, Kirsten Delegard, Kathleen M. Fallon, Kate Hallgren, Randolph Hollingsworth, Jill Irvine, Vandana Joshi, Carol S. Lilly, Annette Linden, Julie Moreau, Margaret Power, Mariela Rubinzal, Daniella Sarnoff, Ronnee Schreiber, Meera Sehgal, Louise Vincent, and Veronica A. Wilson.

Author : Carol Jane Bangs
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811208834

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The Bones of the Earth by Carol Jane Bangs Pdf

Birth, death, ancestry, love, work, family life, and nature form the main themes for this collection of short poems.

Author : James W. Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107010642

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Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts by James W. Underhill Pdf

An original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as love and hate are expressed across cultures and ethnicities.

Author : Gad Beck,Frank Heibert
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299165043

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An Underground Life by Gad Beck,Frank Heibert Pdf

That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully is truly miraculous. This is Gad Beck's story.

Author : Michael Bakan,Professor of Ethnomusicology Michael Bakan,Graeme Gibson,Elizabeth J. Grace,Zena Hamelson,Dotan Nitzberg,Gordon Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 019754312X

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Music and Autism by Michael Bakan,Professor of Ethnomusicology Michael Bakan,Graeme Gibson,Elizabeth J. Grace,Zena Hamelson,Dotan Nitzberg,Gordon Peterson Pdf

In Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan engages in deep conversations-some spanning the course of years-with ten unique and fascinating individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music is central. The result is a profound yet accessible exploration of how people make and experience music, and of why it matters to them that they do, one whose rich tapestry of words, images, and musical sounds speaks to both the extraordinary diversity of autistic experience and the common humanity we all share.

Author : Stephen Kuusisto
Publisher : Delta
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385333276

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Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto Pdf

"The world is a surreal pageant," writes Stephen Kuusisto. "Ahead of me the shapes and colors suggest the sails of Tristan's ship or an elephant's ear floating in air, though in reality it is a middle-aged man in a London Fog rain coat which billows behind him in the April wind." So begins Kuusisto's memoir, Planet of the Blind, a journey through the kaleidoscope geography of the partially-sighted, where everyday encounters become revelations, struggles, or simple triumphs. Not fully blind, not fully sighted, the author lives in what he describes as "the customs-house of the blind", a midway point between vision and blindness that makes possible his unique perception of the world. In this singular memoir, Kuusisto charts the years of a childhood spent behind bottle-lens glasses trying to pass as a normal boy, the depression that brought him from obesity to anorexia, the struggle through high school, college, first love, and sex. Ridiculed by his classmates, his parents in denial, here is the story of a man caught in a perilous world with no one to trust--until a devastating accident forces him to accept his own disability and place his confidence in the one relationship that can reconnect him to the world--the relationship with his guide dog, a golden Labrador retriever named Corky. With Corky at his side, Kuusisto is again awakened to his abilities, his voice as a writer and his own particular place in the world around him. Written with all the emotional precision of poetry, Kuusisto's evocative memoir explores the painful irony of a visually sensitive individual--in love with reading, painting, and the everyday images of the natural world--faced with his gradual descent into blindness. Folded into his own experience is the rich folklore the phenomenon of blindness has inspired throughout history and legend.

Author : Michael B. Bakan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190855840

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Music and Autism by Michael B. Bakan Pdf

Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied. Articles on musical savants, extraordinary feats of musical memory, unusually high rates of absolute or "perfect" pitch, and the effectiveness of music-based therapies abound in the autism literature. Meanwhile, music scholars and historians have posited autism-centered explanatory models to account for the unique musical artistry of everyone from Béla Bartók and Glenn Gould to "Blind Tom" Wiggins. Given the great deal of attention paid to music and autism, it is surprising to discover that autistic people have rarely been asked to account for how they themselves make and experience music or why it matters to them that they do. In Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan does just that, engaging in deep conversations--some spanning the course of years--with ten fascinating and very different individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music plays a central part. These conversations offer profound insights into the intricacies and intersections of music, autism, neurodiversity, and life in general, not from an autistic point of view, but rather from many different autistic points of view. They invite readers to partake of a rich tapestry of words, ideas, images, and musical sounds that speak to both the diversity of autistic experience and the common humanity we all share.

Author : Tony Walker
Publisher : Infinity Pub
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741452553

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Pilgrim's Banner by Tony Walker Pdf