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In a different key : the story of autism / John Donvan, Caren Zucker.

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New York : Crown Publishers, [2016]

xiv, 670 p. ; 25 cm.

Part I: Autism's first child (1930s-1960s) -- Donald -- A menace to society -- Case 1 -- Wild children and holy fools -- Doubly loved and protected -- Some kind of genius -- Part II: The blame game (1960s-1980s) -- The refrigerator mother -- Prisoner 15209 -- Kanner's fault -- Biting her tongue -- Mothers-in-arms -- The agitator -- Home on a Monday afternoon -- Part III: The end of institutions (1970s-1990s) -- "Behind the walls of the world's indifference" -- The right to education -- Getting on the bus -- Seeing the ocean for the first time -- Part IV: Behavior, analyzed (1950s-1990s) -- The behaviorist -- "Screams, slaps, and love" -- The aversion to aversives -- The "anti-Bettelheim" -- 47 percent -- Look-at-me -- From courtroom to classroom -- Part V: The questions asked in London (1960s-1990s) -- The questions asked -- Who counts? -- Words unstrung -- The great twin chase -- Finding their marbles -- Part VI: Redefining a diagnosis (1970s-1990s) -- The autism spectrum -- The Austrian -- The signature -- Part VII: Dreams and boundaries (1980s-1990s) -- The dream of language -- The child within -- An elusive definition -- Meeting of the minds -- The magic man -- Part VIII: How autism became famous (1980s-1990s) -- Putting autism on the map -- Society's emergency -- Part IX: "Epidemic" (1990s-2010) -- The vaccine scare -- Autism speaks -- A story unravels -- The greatest fraud -- Part X: Today -- Finding a voice -- Neurodiversity -- A happy man -- Epilogue.

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