Just a few days ago I noted to Jim that having a child who, like Charlie, does not talk much is entirely different from what I would have imagined things to be like. Had someone told me ten years ago, twenty years ago, that I’d be the mother of a child like Charlie, I think I would have just not have known what to think. How, I would have thought, can anyone be without speech, language, talking, the ability to read and write and express thoughts and hopes and wants and wishes in words?
Charlie is not non-verbal, but talking is …read more