num_pages: 448
description: The groundbreaking true story of two mothers, worlds apart, united in a struggle to connect with their autistic sons.  Emmy(r)-winning art director Portia Iversen's life was turned upside down when her son Dov was diagnosed with autism. But when she heard a miraculous story of a woman in India who had taught her own severely autistic son to communicate, she brought Soma and Tito Mukhopadhyay from Bangalore to America to help researchers better understand this amazing feat. Strange Son is the extraordinary account of two families who made astonishing discoveries about the nature of autism and redefined how the world can interact with those who suffer from the disorder.
language: English
title: Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
titlecomplete: Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
genres: Psychology, Parenting, Biography, Memoir, Science, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Mental Health, Biography Memoir, Language, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 285
publisher: Riverhead Trade