What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
SOLVED: Non-Fiction
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SOLVED. Autobiography or Biography - Woman discovers that severely disabled man is trying to communicate
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I figured it out! Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius. I remember it being a good read so I'm keen to read it again



It was a true story and I recall the main themes being a severely disabled man (I think he was living in a group home). He was unable to communicate. A woman (maybe a support worker) was interacting with him and noticed he was using eye movements (maybe blinking) to try to communicate. She continued to experiment with communicating with him and eventually he was enabled trhough technology to be able to communicate. I remember him telling stories of abuse and neglect that he had endured from support workers who believed that his intellectual capacity was not there.