This incandescent child of mine cannot speak / sign, cannot understand speech / sign - this is called global aphasia. A sweet, innocent, pure, affectionate baby who has not realized there is a world beyond himself and his wants.
His younger brother (our youngest son) is profoundly developmentally disabled: he's nearly eight years-old, appropriately sized, but cognitively, developmentally he is a baby. (apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.My nearly ten year-old smarty pants son read this early in the book, he set it down and turned to me, saying "you know how sometimes when you read a book and someone dies you really feel sad and need to take a break 'cause it's hard to keep going?" I replied "don't forget - I'm the person who cried during the opening scene of 'Hachi' and never stopped!" He laughed and said "oh yeah." A Rewarding Story That May Well Inspire Readers To Think About Others' Points Of View. As She Creates New Cards That Expand Jason's Ability To Express His Feelings, Their Growing Friendship Enables Catherine To Do The Same. Through Her Artwork, The Heroine Gradually Opens Up To Jason, A Wheelchair-bound Peer Who Can Communicate Only By Pointing To Words On Cards. In The Able Hands Of The Author, Mother Of An Autistic Child, Catherine's Emotions Come Across As Entirely Convincing, Especially Her Alternating Devotion To And Resentment Of David, And Her Guilt At Her Impatience With Him.
Sorely Missing Her Best Friend, Who Is Away For The Summer, And Realizing That The Girl Who Has Just Moved In Next Door Is Not A Kindred Spirit, Catherine Devises Some Of Her Own Self-protective Rules (when You Want To Get Out Of Answering Something, Distract The Questioner With Another Question).
Taking Solace In Art, The Girl Fills The Back Of Her Sketchbook With Rules She Has Established For David, So If My Someday-he'll-wake-up-a-regular-brother Wish Doesn't Ever Come True, At Least He'll Know How The World Works, And I Won't Have To Keep Explaining Things. Her Parents Place 12-year-old Catherine In Charge Of Her Younger Autistic Brother More Often Than She Would Like. But The Summer Catherine Meets Jason, A Paraplegic Boy, And Kristi, The Next-door Friend She's Always Wished For, It's Her Own Shocking Behavior That Turns Everything Upside Down And Forces Her To Ask: What Is Normal?publishers Weeklythe Appealing, Credible Narrator At The Heart Of Lord's Debut Novel Will Draw In Readers, As She Struggles To Find Order And Balance In Her Life. She's Spent Years Trying To Teach David The Rules-from A Peach Is Not A Funny-looking Apple To Keep Your Pants On In Public-in Order To Stop His Embarrassing Behaviors. Which Is Near Impossible When You Have A Brother With Autism And A Family That Revolves Around His Disability. Twelve-year-old Catherine Just Wants A Normal Life.
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