In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, this book tells the story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism --