I Am Intelligent

From Heartbreak to Healing--A Mother and Daughter's Journey through Autism

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Special Needs, Biography & Memoir

• Author: Peyton Goddard, Dianne Goddard
• ISBN: 9780762785988
• Publisher: skirt!
• Publication: June 5, 2012
• Imprint: skirt!
• Language: English

This riveting memoir of extreme loss and unimaginable gain recounts the story of a child who, although unable to expressherself, lives fully aware of her limiting circumstances. Robbed of speech and bodily control, and despite her loving parents’ best efforts to help her, Peyton Goddard suffered neglect and ongoing abuse by many who dismissed her as autistic and severely mentally retarded. No one could have imagined that she possessed a brilliant mind in her uncooperative body until her first opportunity to communicate electronically at age 22 when she typed “i am intlgent,” a breakthrough reminiscent of The Miracle Worker.