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    Cover of Queen for a Day: A Novel in Stories
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    Queen for a Day: A Nov­el in Stories
    Maxine Rosaler
    Essay

    My Spe­cial Needs Child, and Our Israel Story

    Jamie Kif­fel-Alcheh is writ­ing here as part of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series.No one could have known it from my con­fi­dent smile, but I almost turned…
    Jamie Kif­fel-Alcheh
    April 20, 2018
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    Non­fic­tion
    Autism Uncen­sored: Pulling Back the Curtain
    Whit­ney Ellenby
    Essay

    Ten Com­mand­ments of Spe­cial Needs Parenting

    Fol­low­ing her posts on rec­og­niz­ing the sen­so­ry over­load of cel­e­brat­ing Purim and set­ting a place for spe­cial needs at the seder table, this week Liane…
    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
    June 9, 2016
    Essay

    Let My Peo­ple In: Bring­ing Chil­dren and Adults with Dis­abil­i­ties to the Seder Table

    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter is the author of Ketchup Is My Favorite Veg­etable: A Fam­i­ly Grows Up With Autism. This week she con­tin­ues her exclu­sive series on…
    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
    April 18, 2016
    Essay

    What Does Purim Mean to My Autis­tic Son?

    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter is the author of Ketchup Is My Favorite Veg­etable: A Fam­i­ly Grows Up With Autism. This week she begins an exclu­sive series on cel­e­brat­ing the…
    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
    March 21, 2016
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    Ketchup Is My Favorite Veg­etable: A Fam­i­ly Grows Up With Autism
    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
    Essay

    Of Autis­tic and Crazy

    Judy Brown wrote the con­tro­ver­sial nov­el Hush—a final­ist for the 2011 Syd­ney Tay­lor Award for out­stand­ing book on the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence — under a pseu­do­nym…
    Judy Brown
    July 27, 2015
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    Unique­ly Human: A Dif­fer­ent Way of See­ing Autism
    Bar­ry M. Prizant
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    Life Ani­mat­ed: A Sto­ry of Side­kicks, Heroes, and Autism
    Ron Suskind
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    Talk­ing Hands: What Sign Lan­guage Reveals About the Mind
    Margalit Fox
    Cover of Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children
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    Each Day I Like It Bet­ter: Autism, ECT, and the Treat­ment of Our Most Impaired Children
    Amy S.F. Lutz
    Cover of Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son
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    Fol­low­ing Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gum­by, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extra­or­di­nary Son
    Tom Fields-Mey­er
    Cover of Esau's Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Special Needs
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    Esau’s Bless­ing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Spe­cial Needs
    Ora Horn Prouser
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    unRE­AL Edu­ca­tion: Beyond Report Cards
    Elaine Mel­lon
    Essay

    The Jew­ish Message

    Ear­li­er this week, Tom Fields-Mey­er wrote about read­ing and think­ing about books and took a look at autism and God. He has been blog­ging…
    Tom Fields-Mey­er
    November 11, 2011
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