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Le Guide Info-Parents – Web version
This guide, annotated and classified by themes, includes informations about 300 resources, 1500 reading suggestions for parents, children and adolescents, as well as 600 links towards Web sites specificly designed for them.
www.chu-sainte-justine.org/en/famille/cise/
The "Éditions de l'hôpital Ste-Justine" and the Montreal Children's Hospital offer a wide variety of interesting books. Consult the titles available on the following sites:
www.chu-sainte-justine.org/applications/editions/index2.asp?section=english
www.hmebibliofamille.ca/page.asp
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy, mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behaviour of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbour's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbours--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Author: Mark Haddon
ISBN 0385659806
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Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
In 1982, when he was four years old, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York City alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves the Idiots, these kids received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Twenty-three years later, the school no longer exists.
Send in the Idiots is the always candid, often surprising, and ultimately moving investigation into what happened to those children. Now a policy adviser in England, Kamran decides to visit four of his old classmates to find out the kind of lives that they are living now, how much they’ve been able to overcome—and what remains missing. A speechwriter unable to make eye contact; a messenger who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle; a depressive suicide victim; and a computer engineer who communicates difficult emotions through the use of hand puppets: these four classmates reveal an astonishing, thought-provoking spectrum of behavior.
Author: Kamran Nazeer
ISBN 1582346194
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DVD
Medecine Under the Influence
Medicine Under the Influence tackles a taboo subject: the tragic effects of life-sustaining medical treatment on infants.
National Film Board of Canada 153C 9204 257
www.onf.ca
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