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Looking after Louis

By: Ely, Lesley.
Publisher: Illinois Albert Whitman 2004Edition: 1st.Description: 1 vol. : ill. (colour) ; 30 cm.ISBN: 0807547468.Subject(s): AUTISM | FICTIONSummary: Written by a clinical psychologist, this is a fictional view of an autistic child finding his place in a mainstream classroom. Details how Louis tends to stare at the wall, parrot the last phrase he hears, draw inscrutable pictures, and sail right through playground soccer games--to all of which his classmates react with a mix of giggles, mild annoyance, and curiosity that, after calm conversations with their teacher, warm to acceptance. Illustrates this lesson in tolerance with sketchy scenes rendered in a childlike, cartoon style; in his bright red pullover, Louis is an easily spotted figure among the other, actively posed children, and like the montages of his jumbled but not entirely abstract paintings that open and close the episode, comes across as different but not, ultimately, beyond comprehension.
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Written by a clinical psychologist, this is a fictional view of an autistic child finding his place in a mainstream classroom. Details how Louis tends to stare at the wall, parrot the last phrase he hears, draw inscrutable pictures, and sail right through playground soccer games--to all of which his classmates react with a mix of giggles, mild annoyance, and curiosity that, after calm conversations with their teacher, warm to acceptance. Illustrates this lesson in tolerance with sketchy scenes rendered in a childlike, cartoon style; in his bright red pullover, Louis is an easily spotted figure among the other, actively posed children, and like the montages of his jumbled but not entirely abstract paintings that open and close the episode, comes across as different but not, ultimately, beyond comprehension.

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