Anna Visloukh

A Thunderous Silence. Raising an Autistic child. My True Story

Anna Visloukh

Nowadays in Russia there are no statistical data that would reflect how many people in autism spectrum have managed to graduate from higher educational establishments. Does anybody, beside specialists, know about their existence at all? This is the first success story of a person in autism spectrum. With the help of his family he has turned from a child diagnosed as ’retarded’ into a student of an American college. The story is written by his mother.