Meet the family with five autistic children (extract)

From Volume 3 Number 11

THERE IS a quiet irony in Jeanette and Patrick O'Donnell's house, where autism has taken hold of five of their six children. Though the brain disorder is most often associated with an inability to speak, autism has rendered this household anything but silent.
       "You have to get used to the sound," Jeanette says of the crashes and pops that mean something is breaking or hitting the floor, usually propelled by small hands. The cacophony of seven older television sets, usually tuned to different channels, drones in the background, fed by a backyard satellite dish …

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