Gail Buckley
More of Meaghan's Voice
To read more of Meaghan's words, and to get a remarkable glimpse inside the autistic mind, please read her book, imPOSSIBLE DREAM. It...
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Gail Buckley
More of Meaghan's Voice
To read more of Meaghan's words, and to get a remarkable glimpse inside the autistic mind, please read her book, imPOSSIBLE DREAM. It...
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Gail Buckley
More of Meaghan's Voice
To read more of Meaghan's words, and to get a remarkable glimpse inside the autistic mind, please read her book, imPOSSIBLE DREAM. It...
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Gail Buckley
Meaghan's Voice
To read more of Meaghan's words, and to get a remarkable glimpse inside the autistic mind, please read her book, imPOSSIBLE DREAM. It...
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Gail Buckley
Autism From the Inside: More of Meaghan's Voice
To read more of Meaghan's words, and to get a remarkable glimpse inside the autistic mind, please read her book, imPOSSIBLE DREAM. It...
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Gail Buckley
The Reality of Living with Autism
To read more of Meaghan's words, and to get a remarkable glimpse inside the autistic mind, please read her book, imPOSSIBLE DREAM. It...
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Meaghan Buckley
Meaghan's Voice: A Young Woman with Autism Speaks Out
I have listened enough. It is time for me to speak. I have a lot to teach the world about autism. I think that there is a lot of...
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Gail Buckley
Make The Impossible Dream a Reality
My name is Gail Buckley and, most of you know me as an online content provider. But, more importantly, I am the parent of two children,...
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Gail Buckley
Impossible Dream
Devastating Tragedy Leads to Extraordinary Triumph AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON NOW! There are many books about autism, but few are...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of Solomon Shereshevsky
Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevsky was born in the Russian village of Torzhok in 1896. At his father’s urging, Shereshevsky briefly...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of Phineas Gage
At 4:30 p.m. on September 13, 1848, a premature blast at a railroad construction site in Cavendish, Vermont propelled a 43-inch long,...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of Louis Victor Leborgne (“Tan”)
Louis Victor Leborgne, born on July 21, 1809, was one of six children in a middle-class family. Leborgne suffered from epileptic attacks...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of JP - Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on Personality
JP was born in December of 1912, the 11.5-pound product of a normal pregnancy and gestation, followed by a 22-hour labor and a difficult...
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The Case of HM (Henry Gustav Molaison)
HM, a high school graduate who worked as a motor winder, was hit by a bicycle as a child, sustaining a 5-minute loss of consciousness. At...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of Auguste Deter
In 1901, Auguste Deter, a 51-year-old woman, was admitted to the Asylum for the Insane and Epileptic in Frankfurt am Main. She had been...
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Gail Buckley
When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result
“When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.” - Jean-Dominique Bauby Jean-Dominique Bauby...
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Gail Buckley
If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere
“But I see in the clothes a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool, I may as well drool on...
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Gail Buckley
Mirror Box Treatment for Phantom Pain
V. S. Ramachandran asked a most daring question; whether phantom paralysis and pain could be "unlearned." Ramachandran then hit on the...
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Gail Buckley
Explaining Phantom Limbs and Pain
The phantom limb was first proposed by Silas Weir Mitchell, an American physician who tended the wounded at Gettysburg and became...
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Gail Buckley
Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses
“Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but...
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Gail Buckley
The Tale of The Silver Spring Monkeys
Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich, in his experiments, showed that when sensory input from a finger was cut off, brain map changes...
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Gail Buckley
Constraint Induced Therapy for Speech
The principles of constraint-induced therapy have been applied by a team headed by Dr. Friedemann Pulvermuller in Germany, which worked...
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Gail Buckley
Constraint Induced Therapy for Cerebral Palsy
Neuroscientist Edward Taub has applied CI principles to a number of other disorders. He has begun working with children with cerebral...
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