Growing Up Severely Autistic Kara McHale James Gilligan lays the foundation

James Gilligan lays the foundation for a complete re-thinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society

Uniquely illustrated

He has a warm and positive attitude to Asperger Syndrome which other children will find inspiring

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Growing Up Severely Autistic Kara McHale James Gilligan lays the foundationGabriel is a teenager who is severely autistic: he is completely unsocialized, is incontinent and is unable to speak. In this book his mother, with great honesty, describes what it is like to bring up an autistic child who requires constant care and exhibits challenging behaviour. Written partly in diary form, Growing Up Severely Autistic covers the minutiae of daily life with vivid immediacy, from preventing Gabriel eating the goldfish, to helping