Toward Wanting More : The Story of a Deaf and Autistic Boy Who Has Grown Up to Be Deaf and Okay

Heitsch, Leona Mason

ISBN 10: 1436328942 / ISBN 13: 9781436328944

Published by Xlibris, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward Wanting More : The Story of a Deaf and Autistic Boy Who Has Grown Up to Be Deaf and Okay
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1436328942
• ISBN 13: 9781436328944
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

What could be more difficult for a parent than to have an autistic child? Perhaps if he is both autistic and deaf. In this stirring memoir Toward Wanting More, know the struggles of one courageous mother who refused to give up - and gave her son a more fulfilling life. When her son Chuck was born, Leona Heitsch became aware of the words retardation, deafness, aphasia, autism, and more. As she realized her son's disability, she sought to get a diagnosis, but no doctor or institution agreed on an effective course of action. But with patience, creativity, persistence, love - and tears - Chuck was able to graduate from high school. Discover how they made it in this testimony of a parent's unwavering love.

About the Author

It was 1940 something when a letter from Aunt Edna blessed all this scribbling. I'd written to her about a clear, bubbling spring that flowed from the base of an oak shaded knoll in our West Bloomfield, Michigan woodland. Edna, who experienced seizures, and lived at the State Hospital in Caro, wrote: "reading your letter was like walking in the woods with you." After than, an encouraging English teacher, Miss Dorothy McCannon, at Roosevelt High School, Keego Harbor, Michigan, blushed and read aloud something I wrote for her. Talk about being pointed in a direction. Six decades later, I am still applying graphite to paper.