The Reason I Jump By Naoki Higashida

EXCLUSIVE: In 2007, Naoki Higashida mapped out his experience as a nonspeaking autistic child and the difficulties he faces with self-expression in his book The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a ...

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Based on the book The Reason I Jump written by Naoki Higashida a non-verbal autistic Japanese boy. Translated from Japanese in 2013 by acclaimed novelist David Mitchell, the book is now a worldwide ...

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Yahoo: ‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: A Humble and Humane Documentary Profile of Nonspeaking Autistic People

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2007, a 13-year-old Japanese boy named Higashida Naoki — with the help of the alphabet board his mother created to help her son ...

‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: A Humble and Humane Documentary Profile of Nonspeaking Autistic People

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KENS: ‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: The experiences of a person with autism are explored in colorful, spirited, lightly profound new doc

‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: The experiences of a person with autism are explored in colorful, spirited, lightly profound new doc

A truly remarkable and unique non-fiction effort, Jerry Rothwell’s “The Reason I Jump” is based on a book written by a 13-year-old Japanese boy who, like all the other young, autistic people in the ...

Naoki Higashida is a young Japanese man who is autistic, but who can communicate via the written word. It is written in a question and answer format with Naoki providing the answers in short passages ...