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Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventures

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Lucy Blackman was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. After leaving school she completed her BA (Hons) in Literary Studies through Deakin University in Geelong. She now lives in Queensland. Lucy's Story is her first book.
Editors' Note. Foreword by Dr Tony Attwood. Glossary. Prologue. April 1992-June 1993. Chapter 1. Little Lucy: Taste, Touch and Tantrums. Chapter 2. Little Lucy: Vision and Voids. Chapter 3. Little Lucy: The Glass Carillon. Chapter 4. Little Lucy Goes to School. Chapter 5. Big Lucy, 1986: Age 10-14. Chapter 6. Language Without Speech: Age 14. Chapter 7 Life with Typed Language, 1987: Age 14. Chapter 8. The New Me, August 1987-June 1988: Age 16-17. Chapter 9. More About Me, High School 1988-1989: Age 16-17. Chapter 10. Family Matters, Summer 1989-1990: Age 17. Chapter 11. School Matters, 1990: Age 17. Chapter 12. Curriculum and Communication, 1990: Age 17. Chapter 13. Typing and Talking, 1990: Age 17-18. Chapter 14. A Question of Touch, 1991: Age 18. Chapter 15. Looking to the Future, 1991: Age 19. Chapter 16. Going to America, October 1991-January 1992. Chapter 17. Earphones and Reggae, January 1992. Chapter 18 An Exciting, Frightening Journey, January-February 1992. Chapter 19. Mapping My Enchanted World, February 1992. Chapter 20. The Lens of the Kaleidoscope, March 1992. Afterword by Dr Tony Attwood.

In this book Lucy Blackman describes her experience of growing up with autism. The book re-opens the controversy about ""facilitated communication"", a method of enabling people who cannot speak to communicate using an alphabet board or keyboard.

Pioneered in Australia by Rosemary Crossley, the technique is now used around the world. Crossley taught Lucy how to use the Cannon communicator to write words on ticker tape. A facilitator - in Lucy's case her mother - supports the arm of the keyboard user and in time the person learns to generate words.

Controversy has arisen over the role of the facilitator who determines which key is struck and hence is the real author of the words generated.

The book provides unique reflections on the inner world of autism, but the critical reader who generated these insights. This is a book worth reading, even by the spectical.

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