In Her Room

When James Cook''s daughter was nearly one, he began to suspect that she wasn''t simply a ''late bloomer'', as he and his wife were telling friends and family. Emily was strongly taken by images and patterns around the house, had a marked response to music, but never pointed at anything, and hadn''t crawled yet.

At the age of two-and-a-half, after months of invasive tests, Emily was finally diagno...