Growing Up Severely Autistic: They Call Me Gabriel

by Kate Rankin

Gabriel is a teenager who is severely autistic: he is completely unsocialized, is incontinent and is unable to speak. In this book his mother, with great honesty, describes what it is like to bring up an autistic child who requires constant care and exhibits challenging behaviour.Written partly in diary form, Growing Up Severely Autistic covers the minutiae of daily life with vivid immediacy, from preventing Gabriel eating the goldfish, to helping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853028916
• ISBN13: 9781853028915
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"