Full name: Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism

Author: Catherine Maurice Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Parenting Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780449906644 0449906647

She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense, graceful fragility. In her first year, she picked up words, smiled and laughed, and learned to walk. But then Anne-Marie began to turn inward. And when her little girl lost some of the words she had acquired, cried inconsolably, and showed no interest in anyone around her, Catherine Maurice took her to doctors who gave her a devastating diagnosis: autism. In their desperate struggle to save their daughter, the Maurices plunged into a medical nightmare of false hopes, "miracle cures," and infuriating suggestions that Anne-Marie's autism was somehow their fault. Finally, Anne-Marie was saved by an intensive behavioral therapy. Let Me Hear Your Voice is a mother's illuminating account of how one family triumphed over autism. It is an absolutely unforgettable book, as beautifully written as it is informative. Similar books: There's a Boy in Here by Judy Barron Strange Son by Portia Iversen George & Sam by Charlotte Moore Facing Autism by Lynn M. Hamilton Following Ezra by Tom Fields-Meyer The Way I See It by Temple Grandin Louder Than Words by Jenny McCarthy Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm Not Even Wrong by Paul Collins Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy Like Colour to the Blind by Donna Williams A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer Autism by Uta Frith Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet