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"In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years old, was completely nonverbal and spent much of his time "chewing on blocks and tapping stones." Although he didn't know the alphabet, colors, or numbers; although he "could hardly point or nod his head to show what he meant"; although doctors had diagnosed Dov as "retarded" and told Iversen she "shouldn't wreck [her] marriage and destroy [her] other children's lives for his sake, when doing so was utterly and completely useless" - although all these things were true about her son, Iversen still imagined him "falling down a deep well, believed to be dead. And then years later, a light shone down that dark shaft and I could see him there, somehow still alive" (emphasis in original)"--
Detail About Chasing the Intact Mind PDF
- Author : Amy S. F. Lutz
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Genre : Family & Relationships
- Total Pages : 193 pages
- ISBN : 0197683843
- Release Date : 03 October 2023
- PDF File Size : 13,8 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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