This book focuses on the development of self and intersubjectivity in infants, and the parent-child and family interactions that help facilitate it. A unique, step by step account of how these capacities emerged and developed in a child with atypical neurodevelopment over his first four years is examined in the light of theory and research about these issues in normal children as well as in infants and children with various developmental disabilities.

Rita S. Eagle, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, mom and grandmother. Formerly of New York City and Toronto, she now lives in Southern California with her family, and her son's dog, Henry.B.Eagle. .She has published in several professional journals and is the author of the recently published book, "Help Him Make you Smile: Intersubjectivity in the Atypical child." "Sniffy" is her first published children's book. Gerry Rasmussen is a cartoonist from Edmonton, Canada. His comic strip, Betty, has been syndicated by United Feature Syndicate since 1991, and appears in nearly 100 newspapers and...