Like Colour to the Blind

{{short description|Book by Donna Williams}}

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| caption = First edition

| author = Donna Willams

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| genre = Autobiography

| publisher = Doubleday

| release_date = 1996

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| pages = 340

  • | isbn = 978-1-85302-720-8

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| preceded_by = Somebody Somewhere

| followed_by = Everyday Heaven

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Like Colour To The Blind (1996) is the third in a series of four autobiographical works by internationally bestselling autistic author Donna Williams.[http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book.php/isbn/9781853027208 Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130032322/http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book.php/isbn/9781853027208 |date=2007-11-30 }} Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Retrieved 9 September 2012.

The book relates Williams' diagnosis with scotopic sensitivity syndrome, and her experience with tinted lenses on her visual perceptual disorders including visual fragmentation, context blindness, face blindness, and loss of depth perception.Fouse, Beth and Maria Wheeler. (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=eYuMt1d03O8C&pg=PA74 A Treasure Chest of Behavioral Strategies for Individuals with Autism.] Future Horizons. p. 74. {{ISBN|1885477368}}.[http://www.autism-pdd.net/testdump/test19304.htm Autism Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314195741/https://www.autism-pdd.net/testdump/test19304.htm |date=2022-03-14 }} Autism-PDD.Bogdashina, Olga. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=RCQ1U38WmjIC&pg=PA133 Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Different Sensory Experiences, Different Perceptual Worlds.] Jessica Kingsley Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-84310-166-6}} This led to a wide social awakening to visual perceptual disorders in people on the autistic spectrum.[http://www.2understand.com/topic.php?p=1&menuid=11 2understand.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830000457/http://www.2understand.com/topic.php?p=1&menuid=11 |date=August 30, 2007 }}[http://www.researchautism.net/interventionitem.ikml?print&ra=2&infolevel=4 Research Autism - Coloured Filters.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185445/http://researchautism.net/interventionitem.ikml?print&ra=2&infolevel=4 |date=2016-03-03 }} Research Autism.[http://www.kylestreehouse.org/The_Irlen_Method.cfm The Irlen Method] Kyle's Treehouse. Kyle Westphal Foundation. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213045238/http://www.kylestreehouse.org/The_Irlen_Method.cfm |date=December 13, 2007 }}

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