{"id":3401,"date":"2024-11-20T18:36:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2024-11-20T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:37:07","slug":"in-a-different-key-the-story-of-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/in-a-different-key-the-story-of-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Different Key: The Story of Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"para__RRaZ content_L9KZe MARK_MODULE\" data-tag=\"paragraph\" data-uuid=\"2L7DdAtiVBL\" data-idx=\"0-1\">\n<p>Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first\u00a0child diagnosed\u00a0with\u00a0autism. Beginning with his family\u2019s odyssey,\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">In a Different Key<\/span>\u00a0tells the extraordinary 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 beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism\u2014by liberating children from dank institutions, campaigning for their right to go to school, challenging expert opinion on what it means to have autism, and persuading society to accept those who are different.<\/p>\n<p>It is the story of women like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed cold and rejecting \u201crefrigerator mothers\u201d for causing autism; and of fathers who pushed scientists to dig harder for treatments. Many others played starring roles too: doctors like Leo Kanner, who pioneered our understanding of autism; lawyers like Tom Gilhool, who took the families\u2019 battle for education to the courtroom; scientists who sparred over how to treat autism; and those with autism, like Temple Grandin, Alex Plank, and Ari Ne\u2019eman, who explained their inner worlds and championed the philosophy of neurodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a story of fierce controversies\u2014from the question of whether there is truly an autism \u201cepidemic,\u201d and whether vaccines played a part in it; to scandals involving \u201cfacilitated communication,\u201d one of many treatments that have proved to be blind alleys; to stark disagreements about whether scientists should pursue a cure for autism. There are dark turns too: we learn about experimenters feeding LSD to children with autism, or shocking them with electricity to change their behavior; and the authors reveal compelling evidence that Hans Asperger, discoverer of the syndrome named after him, participated in the Nazi program that consigned disabled children to death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"para__RRaZ content_L9KZe MARK_MODULE\" data-tag=\"paragraph\" data-uuid=\"2L7DgKbWXkL\" data-idx=\"1-19\">\n<div class=\"para__RRaZ content_L9KZe MARK_MODULE\" data-tag=\"paragraph\" data-uuid=\"8QomEd1\" data-idx=\"1-1\">\n<div class=\"para__RRaZ content_L9KZe MARK_MODULE\" data-tag=\"paragraph\" data-uuid=\"gnfiiltnao\" data-idx=\"2-14\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Fores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[26,27,28],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research_book","tag-book","tag-child","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsercca.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}