The Road Trip

This is a moving portrait of a difficult family circumstance: the experience of seeing your healthy two-year old child slip into the interior chaos and private world of autism. Kevin Vasey was a healthy baby until autism gripped his life.

This is a parent's journey into sadness and rage as she tries to uncover the bitter mysteries of autism while maintaining her sanity and her faith. We grow and learn with Gloria Pearson-Vasey as her verbally mute yet troubled son bounces from one institution to the next before finally discovering "assisted communication"--the computer system that unlocked his ability to speak.

The Road Trip includes the epic journey to Atlantic Canada made by the family when Kevin begins to communicate by computer. This fascinating story includes excerpts of the diary Kevin kept during his trip East as a young adult.