O menino e o cavalo : a extraordinaria viagem de um pai para curar o filho
Title:
O menino e o cavalo : a extraordinaria viagem de um pai para curar o filho
Author:
Isaacson, Rupert
Henriques, Joao
ISBN:
9789892304571
Edition:
1a ed.
Publication Information:
Alfragide : Caderno, 2009
Physical Description:
463 p.
General Note:
Titulo original: The horse boy
Abstract:
When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a idea: why not take Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersected?
Subject Term:
Subject:
| Autistic children -- United States -- Biography |
| Parents of autistic children -- United States -- Biography |
| Autism in children -- Treatment -- Case studies |
| Horses -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies |
| Human-animal relationships -- Case studies |
| Autistic children -- Family relationships -- Case studies |
| Fathers and sons -- Case studies |
| Austin (Tex.) -- Biography |
| Isaacson, Rowan |
| Isaacson, Rupert |
Summary:
When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a idea: why not take Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersected?