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Candy Lawrence
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This review has a few spoilers. But they're spoilers with a purpose. Read on, oh Goodreader who wants to find great books about autism. Oh, and it's really a review of the whole three book series. Read them all! I love that this series has such a bril ...more |
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“I'm sorry," said the bureaucrat blandly when I went in and blew a fuse at him, "the criteria are quite clear. He's too able to get support."
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Maureen, I am the author and I am also autistic! My other book shown on this site, Being Friends with Bodie Finch, is specifically about autism, and f
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"How would you handle dedicating a third of your waking hours to your child’s daily therapy sessions for over two years? “Down to the Sea” by Mike Belnap and Candy Lawrence is the poignant true story of how the Belnap family’s life was impacted by a s"
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“I'm sorry," said the bureaucrat blandly when I went in and blew a fuse at him, "the criteria are quite clear. He's too able to get support."
"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
― Down to the Sea
"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
― Down to the Sea
“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“I'm sorry," said the bureaucrat blandly when I went in and blew a fuse at him, "the criteria are quite clear. He's too able to get support."
"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
― Down to the Sea
"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
― Down to the Sea
