Summary Of Let Me Hear Your Voice By Catherine Maurice

Section Summary In these first four chapters of Let Me Hear Your Voice by Catherine Maurice we as readers are introduced to Catherine’s one-year-old daughter, Anne-Marie. We are also introduced to the rest of their family: Daniel, the older two-year-old brother, Marc, the husband/father and a handful of other individuals. The book is written in the style paralleling an autobiography, by Catherine Maurice. The work expounds on her experiences of raising an Autistic child. As readers, we begin to witness the daily lives of this family and begin to understand how they live under such unique circumstances. After introductions, we learn about Anne-Marie’s condition. She seemed normal enough as a newborn; however, as she began to develop it became
We have defined behavior as anything that an intact, living organism can do; regardless as to whether the activity occurs covertly or overtly.
This work concerns the disorder Autism. These first four chapters indicate that Autism is a disorder that severely impairs one's linguistic and social skills over one’s lifetime. Thus, we can take this information and begin creating a behavioral definition for Autism.
Autism’s trademark symptoms as identified by the Merck Manual, as represented in this book are: ‘extreme aloneness’; ‘insistence on sameness’; ‘attachment to familiar objects’; ‘disorders of speech and language’; and ‘markedly uneven intellectual performance’ (pg. 17). These symptoms also begin to provide an idea of what behavioral definitions we would use to address these symptoms. The next step would be clarifying the exact behaviors associated with each of the symptoms. After having established these specific behavioral definitions, we will have clarified which behaviors to observe. We will also have developed some insight into how we should record these