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- Title
River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies.
- Authors
Savarese, Ralph James
- Abstract
An essay is presented that discusses the author's adopted son's reading and writing as a student with autism. Topics include his interpretation of Harriet Tubman in light of purported oppression of people with autism in the U.S., the identification of his heavy breathing as a result of anxiety as a politically relevant circumstance, and the dominance of the right brain hemisphere and of emotional intensity in people with autism.
- Subjects
AUTISTIC children; READING interests of children with disabilities; ANXIETY disorders; ADOPTED children; TUBMAN, Harriet, ca. 1820-1913; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, 2012, Vol 14, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1522-3868
- Publication type
Creative Nonfiction
- DOI
10.1353/fge.2012.0021