Isabel's World
2009
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When the author's daughter Isabel was diagnosed with autism in 1994, he knew nothing about it. Driven to learn more about this dramatic increase, he sets forth on a journey around the world and makes a surprising discovery about the autism epidemic that would change both his understanding of the disorder and his relationship with his daughter.
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Author
Roy Richard Grinker
Author · 6 books
B. 1961 Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University. Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. As part of his PhD research, he spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar. He has also conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.
