Books by Mark Osteen

Chronicles the experience of raising a severely autistic child. In a powerful, deeply personal narrative, the author recounts the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their son's disability. It is a story that takes the reader into the life of a child who exists in his own world, and describes the hardships faced by those who love and care for him.

This volume, the first scholarly book on autism and the humanities, brings scholars from several different disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films and clinical discourses, and to explore the connections and demarcations between autistic and "normal" creative expression.

Brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to explore the connections and demarcations between autistic and "neurotypical" creativity.