02695cam a2200313 i 4500 112080722 TxAuBib 20071213120000.0 030403s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003007605 9780738206660 0738206660 TxAuBib rda Stacey, Patricia. The boy who loved windows : opening the heart and mind of a child threatened with autism / Patricia Stacey. First Da Capo Press edition. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2003. xi, 300 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Merloyd Lawrence book.". Sirens -- You'll have to wait -- Grasping -- What's in a face -- The world is too much -- Reciprocity -- The brain doesn't wait -- The game -- The body is a map -- The questions that haunted us -- More clues -- A walk around the driveway -- The epidemic -- Through a door in the wall -- A challenge, a game, a vocation, a sentence -- Begin with desire -- Tyranny of attention -- Partly heard song -- Words -- The specter of loss -- Ways to make a salad -- The ladder -- To paradise pond -- Exotic poisons, unusual connections -- Through another door in the wall -- Imagining the world -- A close call -- Companions -- A search light -- The senses revisited -- I have a prob'em -- Epiphany -- What wrecks this world -- A car turning off the road -- Eyes of a stranger -- The fate of babies and pirates. "In 1997, writer Patricia Stacey and her husband, Cliff, learned that their six-month-old son, Walker, might never walk or talk, or even hear or see. Unwilling to accept this grim prognosis, they embarked on a five-year odyssey that took them into alternative medicine and the newest brain research - and toward a new and innovative understanding of autism. Finally their search brought them to pioneering developmental psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who helped them save their son and bring him into full contact with the world." "This enthralling memoir, at once heart-wrenching and hopeful, takes the reader into the life of one remarkable family willing to do anything to give their son a rich and emotionally full life. We follow as they struggle to elicit the first sign that their son is connecting with them, and share in their fears, struggles, tiny victories, and eventual triumphs."--Jacket. Autistic children United States Biography. Autistic children. United States. Biography.