Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind (2014). This is the true story of Washington D.C. journalist Ron Suskind, his wife Cornelia, their older son Walter, and their younger son Owen. Owen appeared to be a perfectly normal, chatty, active boy until about 2-1/2 years of age. At that time, Owen developed the symptoms of regressive autism, a disorder which can appear between the first 18 to 36 months of life. Over the next several years, Ron and his family learned to communicate, again, with Owen through the stories and characters of Disney films, which they noted that Owen watched repeatedly and with great interest. Owen's interest in the Disney movies, and their use in helping him interact, grow and develop, has come to be called "affinity therapy." As Owen used his love of Disney to help him decipher the social world, so other children have done through their varied passions for subjects such as Thomas the Tank Engine, Anime, maps, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 50s, and others. "Life, Animated" is a great read and highly recommend it. Here are a few of links.
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