Running with Walker Educational Sciences - Association for Child Psychology

- Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry Newsletter

Adopting a broad and inclusive approach

but until now there have been no standard definitions of its key terms

and a very positive addition to recent publications

Running with Walker Educational Sciences - Association for Child PsychologyBy the time he was three, Walker's parents were concerned enough about his delayed development to consult a paediatric neurologist. Doctors diagnosed autism and issued a grim prognosis: 'I hold out no hope for this child'. But they hadn't accounted for Walker's intelligence, affection, and sense of humour or for the remarkable bonds that grew within his family. Walker's father, Robert Hughes, tells a touching and inspiring story of discovering that