Jeanne Simons, LCSW, ACSW (1910-2005), was raised and educated in Holland as a certified Montessori teacher and earned her degree in clinical social work from Boston College. She worked with unusual children all her life, both in Holland and the United States. In 1955, she founded the Linwood Children's Center for children with autism in Ellicott City, MD. There, she pioneered a highly successful treatment approach, which she described in the book The Hidden Child: The Linwood Method for Reaching the Autistic Child. Sabine Oishi, PhD was born in Switzerland and educated first as a teacher and then as a child psychologist at the University of Geneva. She earned her PhD in child development and family therapy from the University of Maryland. She has worked as a teacher, researcher, and therapist both in Switzerland and the United States. With Jeanne Simons, she was the coauthor of The Hidden Child. James C. Harris, MD, is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is the director of the Developmental Neuropsychiatric Clinic.
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Foreword, by James C. Harris Preface Introduction: A Brief Description of Early Autism Development 1. Jeanne's Birth - 1910 2. Early Childhood - Belgium 3. Early Childhood - World War I 4. School Years - Holland 5. Illness 6. The Teacher 7. Exile - 1940 8. America 1940 - 1945 9. Return to Holland 1945 - 1947 10. Return to America: The Social Worker 1947 - 1955 11. The Miracle Worker: Lee and Martin 12. Linwood, 1955 13. Who Am I? The Search for Self Conclusion Epilogue: Linwood Then and Today Afterword, by James C. Harris Appendix References Acknowledgments Index