The Boy Who Loved Windows
This enthralling memoir is the day-by-day story of how one little boy was saved from a path leading to autistic isolation. It is also a first-hand account of the new model of research and treatment pioneered by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. that makes this recovery possible for others. Walker, whom pediatricians worried would never walk, talk, or perhaps even hear or see, was lucky enough to be born to a family who would not accept defeat. Pat Stacey reveals the darkest fears, struggles,...
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If you or anyone you know has a child with autism, you won't want to miss reading The Boy Who Loved Windows.--Newsday
AcknowledgmentsviiPart 1Sirens3You'll Have to Wait13Grasping19Part 2What's in a Face27The World Is Too Much35Reciprocity44The Brain Doesn't Wait51The Game58The Body Is a Map67Part 3The Questions That Haunted Us83New Clues93A Walk Around the Driveway102The Epidemic108Part 4Through a Door in the Wall123A Challenge, a Game, a Vocation, a Sentence133Begin with Desire144Tyranny of Attention150Partly Heard Song163Words169The Specter of Loss182Ways to Make a Salad186The Ladder194To Paradise Pond199Exotic Poisons, Unusual Connections205Through Another Door in the Wall208Part 5Imagining the World221A Close Call227Companions238A Searchlight240The Senses Revisited244Part 6I Have a Prob'em263Epiphany270What Wrecks This World275A Car Turning Off the Road281Eyes of a Stranger285The Fate of Babies and Pirates289Epilogue297About the Author300
