Al Capone Does My Shirts

by Gennifer Choldenko

  33. In 1936, a year after the book takes place, the city of San Francisco opened a school for children with “special” problems. According to the 1936 Report of the Superintendent of the San Francisco Public Schools, the school—called the Sunshine School—was for children “for whom we cannot do too much in the attempt to help them overcome their handicaps.”

  34. Autism Society of America Web site, “What is Autism,” accessed April 28, 2003 [http://www.autism-society.org].

  35. OLIVER SACKS, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (New York: Knopf, 1995), 245.

  36. TEMPLE GRANDIN, Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), 53.

  37. OLIVER SACKS, foreword to Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism, by Temple Grandin, 11-12.

  38. Families for Early Autism Treatment-North Texas Web site, “What scientific evidence supports Intensive Behavioral Intervention,” accessed April 28, 2003 [http://www.featnt.org/info/brochure.asp]: “Given an average of 40 hours per week of one-on-one treatment for 2 or more years, 47% of the children recovered to the point of being indistinguishable from their normal developing peers.”