11
Ibid., pp. 43–44.
12
Frith, in Autism and Asperger Syndrome, p. 18.
13
Ibid., p. 19.
14
Kanner, op. cit., p. 37.
15
Eric Courchesne et al., „Recent Advances in Autism“, in Neurobiology and Infantile Autism, H. Naruse and E. M. Ornitz, eds. (New York- Elsevier Science Publications, 1992), p. 115.
16
Wing, op. cit., p. 95; Bryna Siegel, The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 49–50.
17
See Paul’s afterword in Jane Taylor McDonnell’s News from the Border: A Mother’s Memoir of Her Autistic Son (New York: Ticknor & Fields, I993)“
18
Lola Bogyo and Ronald Ellis, „Elly: A Study in Contrasts“, in The Exceptional Brain, L. K. Obler and D. Fein, eds. (New York: Guilford Press, 1988), pp. 268–271. The authors have kept the pseudonym I used for Jessy in The Siege.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid.
21
David Park and Philip Youderian, „Light and Number: Ordering Principles in the World of an Autistic Child“, Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, vol. 4, no. 4 (1974), pp. 315–318.
22
The quotations are from Frances Groves Dodd, unpublished journal, entries of October 20 and November 27, 1972.
23
For more on Jessy’s slow road to a full school day, see C. C. Park, „Elly and the Right to Education“, in Contemporary Issues in Special Education, R. E. Schmid, J. Moneypenny, and R. Johnston, eds. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977), pp. 34–37.
24
Bogyo and Ellis, op. cit., pp. 269–270. For more on Jessy’s numbers, see Park and Youderian, „Light and Number“.
25
For one of these drawings of number people, see The Siege, 1982 or 2001 edition.
