A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism

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Margret Dagmar Ericsdottir and her autistic son, Keli.
Confronting Autism
By ANDY WEBSTER
Published: September 23, 2010

Amid growing awareness of Asperger’s syndrome and the spectrum of autism in general, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s riveting documentary “A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism” leaps into the mysteries surrounding the disorder, tracing the efforts of Margret Dagmar Ericsdottir, a mother in Iceland, to seek treatment for her severely autistic son, Keli. While the title is accurate, the film is less a portrait of her than an inquiry into the origins and nature of autism and therapies for it. More