Higashida The Reason I Jump

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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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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The Arts Desk: The Reason I Jump review - compelling and controversial

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Deadline.com: ‘The Reason I Jump’ Trailer: Documentary Shines Spotlight On Nonspeaking Autism

“Life-changing” is the kind of hyperbolic descriptor thrown around all too easily in the world of publishing, but it could quite reasonably be applied to Naoki Higashida’s nonfiction bestseller “The ...

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

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

Naoki Higashida's groundbreaking first-person account of living with autism becomes an inventive, sensuous documentary worthy of its source. “Life-changing” is the kind of hyperbolic descriptor thrown ...

As much as it drew praise, the book was also met with an equal amount of scepticism and scorn. Some argued that Higashida’s mother, along with Yoshida and Mitchell who are also parents to a child with ...

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 ...