Sherry Quan Lee

And You Can Love Me

a story for everyone who loves someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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Produktbeschreibung

And You Can Love Me is a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD (autism spectrum disorder). It is the fictional story of Ethan, a nonverbal autistic child, based on the author's observations and experiences with her grandson. The bounce of a ball is not only a metaphor, but also how the author imagines that the child is releasing his innermost physical and emotional challenges. It is a love story that can be recognized by parents, caregivers and teachers; a story that embraces Ethan, a nonverbal child, who may never/or not yet be able to write his own story, yet he lives it every day and tells it by his actions and by bouncing a ball- any ball, any size, any color. And You Can Love Me is also a picture book that a child with ASD may, in some way, recognize within himself/herself. It doesn't try to explain, define or even educate; it is merely Ethan's story - the story of one particular nonverbal autistic child; one of the many stories that will add to the diversity of ASD stories. ACCLAIM FOR AND YOU CAN LOVE ME "As a mother and grandmother, this story speaks to me about the power of unconditional love we bring to any situation. This book is an excellent resource for adults who have a child or grandchild with autism. It acknowledges the different ways a loved one with autism may communicate and reminds me that we love completely. As a former special education teacher, I am able to keep sharing with people, through this story, about the wonderful diversity that we see in the world. Everyone has gifts." --Deb Holtz is a former special education teacher, a current end-of-life doula and a mother and grandmother. "In And You Can Love Me, Sherry Quan Lee gives us the world of Ethan, a little boy with autism. Although Ethan is mute, his daily routine of bouncing a ball and expressing his needs, as well as his interior life, are revealed through simple sketches and lovely lines, like Today I am another year of being me. A welcome and wonderful addition to the as-yet-tiny body of work about children with autism, And You Can Love Me is a beautiful, profoundly moving book." --Alison McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of many books for children and adults. Learn more at www.SherryQuanLee.com From Loving Healing Press

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Loving Healing Press
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 216mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 138g
• ISBN-13: 9781615994243
• ISBN-10: 1615994246
• Artikelnr.: 55910271

Autorenporträt

Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, University of Minnesota, and Distinguished Alumna, North Hennepin Community College, is the editor of "How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse". Her most recent book, "Love Imagined: a mixed race memoir" was a 2015 Minnesota Book Award Finalist. Previous books include "Chinese Blackbird," a memoir in verse, "How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman's life," and a chapbook, "A Little Mixed Up." Quan Lee was a selected participant for the Loft Literary Center Asian Inroads Program, and later was the Loft mentor for the same program. Previously, she was the Writer to Writer mentor for SASE: the write place, at Intermedia Arts. Also, she was the 2015-2016 Loft Literary Center's Mentors Series poetry mentor. She was the Asian American Renaissance, Artist and Youth Program Manager and a volunteer editor for: Body of Stories, the fifth journal of the Asian American Renaissance, and Spirits, Myths and Dreams: Stories in Transit, the fourth journal of the Asian American Renaissance. She has recently retired as an adjunct creative writing instructor at Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, and has taught creative writing at St. Catherine University. Follow her on the site http://blog.sherryquanlee.com.