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Jacqui Jackson & Son |
Friday 10 October 2003 |
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Jacqui Jackson is a single mum with four sons and three daughters. All her boys are on what's known as 'the autistic spectrum'. "I don't want to label them" she says, "but, yes, I would like some kind of acceptance that this isn't their fault - they're just different."
Following the BBC documentary, Meet the Jacksons broadcast earlier this year, and which showed the family's very lively home life, Jacqui was labelled a 'supermum'.
Somehow Jacqui has found the time to write a book about the chaos - and the delights - of their lives, designed to help other parents and carers. She joins Sheila with her son Luke, who has Asperger's Syndrome, to talk about her book and life in the Jackson family.
Multicoloured Mayhem: Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescence, Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD by Jacqui Jackson, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ISBN 1843101718
Newsgroup - alt.support.autism
BBC Skillwise - Asperger's syndrome
BBC Ouch! My Family and Autism
BBC Health - Children's Ailments - Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
National Autistic Society
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