Author(s): Cheri L Florance with Marin Gazzaniga

Non-Fiction

Cheri Floraqnce's third child, Whitney, was born completely silent, and didn't make a sound for five years. He was diagnosed as profoundly deaf, mute and severely autistic, and Cheri was advised to institutionalise him. Cheri, a speech pathologist by profession, saw that he was trapped by his inability to communicate. So she set out to reclaim her son. This is the extraordinary story of that journey.