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Zusatztext 77578411 Informationen zum Autor JOHN DONVAN is a multiple Emmy Award-winning correspondent for ABC and the moderator of the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate series. Find him on Twitter at @johndonvan. CAREN ZUCKER is a Peabody award-winning television news producer! a twenty-five-year veteran of ABC News! and producer and co-writer of the six-part PBS series “Autism Now.” Klappentext Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction An extraordinary narrative history of autism: the riveting story of parents fighting for their children 's civil rights; of doctors struggling to define autism; of ingenuity! self-advocacy! and profound social change. Nearly seventy-five years ago! Donald Triplett of Forest! Mississippi! became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey! In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition! and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades! it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism-by liberating children from dank institutions! campaigning for their right to go to school! challenging expert opinion on what it means to have autism! and persuading society to accept those who are different. It is the story of women like Ruth Sullivan! who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed cold and rejecting "refrigerator mothers" for causing autism; and of fathers who pushed scientists to dig harder for treatments. Many others played starring roles too: doctors like Leo Kanner! who pioneered our understanding of autism; lawyers like Tom Gilhool! who took the families' battle for education to the courtroom; scientists who sparred over how to treat autism; and those with autism! like Temple Grandin! Alex Plank! and Ari Ne'eman! who explained their inner worlds and championed the philosophy of neurodiversity. This is also a story of fierce controversies-from the question of whether there is truly an autism "epidemic!" and whether vaccines played a part in it; to scandals involving "facilitated communication!" one of many treatments that have proved to be blind alleys; to stark disagreements about whether scientists should pursue a cure for autism. There are dark turns too: we learn about experimenters feeding LSD to children with autism! or shocking them with electricity to change their behavior; and the authors reveal compelling evidence that Hans Asperger! discoverer of the syndrome named after him! participated in the Nazi program that consigned disabled children to death. By turns intimate and panoramic! In a Different Key takes us on a journey from an era when families were shamed and children were condemned to institutions to one in which a cadre of people with autism push not simply for inclusion! but for a new understanding of autism: as difference rather than disability. 9780307985675|excerpt Donvan / IN A DIFFERENT KEY 1 Donald In 1935, five Canadian baby girls, all sisters, edged out Niagara Falls on the list of Canada’s most popular tourist draws. That year, up to six thousand visitors each day took Route 11 into far northern Ontario for the sole purpose of gawking at the babies. By order of the provincial government, they had recently been removed from the care of their farmer parents, to be raised instead in a hurriedly built “hospital” situated not far from the family farmhouse. There they would have indoor plumbing, electricity, and a “scientific” upbringing overseen by a full-time doctor and two full-time nurses. Three times a day, on cue, the girls were carried out to a grass-covered “play area” just a few yards from where a crowd waited for them. The audience was packed into a specially designed viewing arcade, tented and fitted wi...
