Please join us on Wednesday, October 6, at 1:00pm for "Siblings and Autism: Stories Spanning Generations and Cultures” presented by Debra Cumberland.
In recent decades, we have seen an extraordinary number of parent books, a mother or father driven to encompass the reality of autism in words: Clara Claiborne Parks’s Exiting Nirvana, Richard Grinker’s Unstrange Minds, Susan Senator’s Making Peace with Autism, and many, many more. From autobiographical “how-to” perspectives meant to teach interventions and thus “recover” a child to revelations into the hard realities and unique features of a different way of knowing, these books and others discern the landscape of autism as seen through the intimate lens of a parent. In all the various renderings of the life of autism, however, one voice is consistently missing or spoken from the margins: the sibling point of view. Professor Cumberland will talk about her experiences publishing an anthology that gave voice to the sibling experience, and what she learned in the process.
The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor, bluff side of the Darrell W. Krueger Library. For the complete Fall 2010 Library Athenaeum schedule, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/
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