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Guest Reviewer Kristina Chew

From , former About.com Guide

Updated October 27, 2010

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Kristina Chew is an Associate Professor of Classics at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey. She has published a number of articles about autism, disability studies, and literature, most recently in Gravity Pulls You In: Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum (Woodbine House Press: 2010) and in Autism and Representation (Routledge Press: 2008). Since 2005, she has been blogging about autism at websites including Autism Vox and Change.org; she currently writes about life with her 13-year-old son, Charlie (who’s on the moderate to severe end of the autism spectrum) at We Go With Him and also blogs for Care2.com about education, health policy and disability.

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