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| |  | Books & DVDs | Home » » Miracle Run: Watching My Autistic Sons Grow Up- and Take Their First StepsInto Adulthood | | | | | | | Description: | | The inspiration for the Lifetime movie and a guide for parents confronting their autistic children's journeys to adulthood.
Parents of autistic children often wonder: What will happen to our kids when they grow up? Can they work? Have relationships and their own families? Here is the poignant story of one woman watching her autistic boys reach adulthood.
A single mother barely making ends meet, Corrine Morgan-Thomas could hardly afford doctors for her twins, Stephen and Phillip. After their diagnosis of autism, no one else thought these boys would ever amount to anything. But Corrine managed single-handedly to keep the boys out of institutions-and in "regular" school. And their inspiring story became Lifetime television's Miracle Run.
The real miracle, though, was what happened where the movie left off-when Stephen and Phillip graduated to face adult autism. From their diagnosis to the present day, when the boys have grown into young men leading happy lives, Corrine's eye-opening story is full of candor, humor, and most of all, hope.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Corrine Morgan-Thomas | | Paperback:
| 336 pages | | Publisher:
| Berkley Trade | | Publication Date:
| March 03, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0425225828 | | Product Length:
| 8.35 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.64 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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Couldn't stay focused on this bookMay 01, 2012
By Maxine L. Owen
"Author of My Remembrance and Cameron's Journey"
After viewing the movie version of this book, I thought that I would be more interested in the book. As is often the case, the book and the movie had little in common. The main points were essentially the same, but the details that made the movie interesting were absent from the book.
I have an autistic child of my own. He has a high-functioning form of Autism, called Asperger's Syndrome, which is what my book, Cameron's Journey, is about. My connection to the world of Autism made me want to get into the book and like it. But I had to make myself keep going back to it.
No matter your level of interest in this book, you will find yourself coming away with a feeling of respect for this initially single mother, raising twin Autistic boys on her own.
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Back and forth ... back and forthJun 08, 2011
By Jessica
It's a decent story - the survival of this family alone is impressive.
I would have appreciated it more if the co-author had helped Morgan-Thomas streamline the story a bit. In every paragraph, she goes back and forth between her memoires and her reflections in the same breath. It was kind of like, "I was miserable, but I wasn't; well, I was, but I don't want you to get the wrong idea - because I was grateful, even though I was ungrateful." <------- THIS IS NOT FROM THE BOOK. That was just my interpretation of the tone of the story. If you can get muddle through it, the glimpse into the life of a family who lives with autism is interesting, painful, and somewhat inspirational.
The best thing I have to offer up about this book is this:
You can really feel the love, pride, and connection between a mother and her children. Autistic or otherwise.
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