1. Background.; 2. Berkeley Years.; 3. Residence in France.; 4. Graduate School, Comparative Literature and Women's Lib.; 5. Ben and Cross Cultural Confrontation.; 6. A Bilingual Gifted Child.; 7. Dave and the Beatles Musical Awakening.; 8. Crisis and Returning to LA.; 9. Appreciating LA and its Resources.; 10. Dreams as a Tool in the Re-emergence of the Self.; 11. Life as a Single Parent - A New Beginning.
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A scholar of cross-cultural language teaching, women's studies, and science fiction and fantasy, Rubinyi is also the mother of a son with Asperger's Syndrome, and it is the story of raising him that she tells here. She emphasises his particular gifts, including photographic memory, perfect pitch and French-English bilingual abilities. She appends advice for other parents.