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Walker Finds a Way Robert Hughes

Walker Finds a Way By Robert Hughes

Walker Finds a Way by Robert Hughes


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Summary

What do you do when your usually happy son with low-functioning autism is deemed difficult and unruly? From the author of Running with Walker, this gripping memoir reveals the highs and lows of adult life with low-functioning autism, and portrays a very special relationship between one son and his parents in the midst of a toxic situation.

Walker Finds a Way Summary

Walker Finds a Way: Running into the Adult World with Autism by Robert Hughes

Most people would describe Walker Hughes as warm, enthusiastic and charismatic - even if he doesn't say very much. But after several happy years living in a group home, Walker descended into a deep unhappiness, and his parents were told that their son with low-functioning autism was 'unmanageable' and a danger to others. Where did it all go wrong?

From the author of Running with Walker, this witty and touching memoir tells a story of crisis and recovery of a young man with low-functioning autism. Battling miscommunication, misinterpreted behaviour and a lack of appropriate services, Walker and his parents' resilience shines through, providing a much-needed portrayal about what life is like for adults with low-functioning autism, and how we can understand the complex personalities of people with communication difficulties.

Walker Finds a Way Reviews

In this honest to the bone, mesmerizing memoir about life with an adult autistic son, Robert Hughes exposes the wretched reality that typically faces special needs adults and their loved ones. But beneath the surface of outrage toward a society that does so little for our most vulnerable people, Hughes graciously elevates the good in the human spirit each time he finds it. Ultimately, this is a story of a family's determination to use their eccentricities, wit, optimism, wisdom, and love for each other, to thwart a broken system that dared to challenge Walker's right to live happy and well. -- Liane Holliday Willey, author of Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome and Safety Skills for Asperger Women: How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life

About Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes is the author of Running with Walker: A Memoir, also published by JKP. His articles have appeared in Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Parents Magazine, and Chicago Magazine, and he has contributed commentary to WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio. He holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Northwestern University and taught writing at Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago. He lives with his family in Chicago.

Table of Contents

1. Zoo-Train-Walk, December, 2013. 2. Winter, 2007: What's Your Plan? 3. A Brave New World. 4. The Empty Nesters. 5. Friends. 6. I Work There. 7. Fence Me In. 8. A Very Un-Merry Birthday. 9. People Change. 10. Agitation, Father and Son. 11. Psycho Dad Makes a Personal Appearance. 12. Our Winter of Discontent. 13. Hold On, Partner. 14. The Escape Artist. 15. Afterword. July, 2015.

Additional information

GOR009949302
9781785920103
1785920103
Walker Finds a Way: Running into the Adult World with Autism by Robert Hughes
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
20160121
240
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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