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March 11, 2014 04:00 pm PDT
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How Disney movies gave an autistic boy hisvoice
In Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism , Pulitzer-winning writer Ron Suskind tells the incredible story of how his son Owen disappeared into "regressive autism" at the age of three, losing the ability to speak or understand speech and developmentally degenerating across a variety of metrics, only to reemerge a few years later, able to communicate through references and dialog from the Disney movies he obsessively watches.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/idBlv2Yx2hE/story01.htm
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