Guardian reader Simon Jenkins was in Thailand when the 2004 tsunami struck. Read about our approach to external linking.

Simon Jenkins, 24, is … There are emails and forum posts and people who accept Dan despite (or ignoring) his autism. Belón has praised the film's accuracy, noting only one difference in the colour of one of her children's toys: "The ball was yellow and in the film it is red," she told the BBC. Dan can’t use a mouse but we quickly discovered that if we got the quiz on an iPad the touchscreen enabled him to read and answer the questions on his own.
By the end of the seven months it took us to finish the play, Dan had become an expert close reader, a skill which would enable him to take Al Filreis’ Modern & Contemporary American Poetry class, the Coursera class that changed his life again four years later.
© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Then there were the online essays to write and peer-review. Dan loved having an objective standard he had to keep up with). Historians do like primary sources, though, so even with that change the film gets points for following Belón's first-hand account. It is impossible to overstate the benefit and happiness that Coursera has brought to our son Daniel and our family. "The rest is exactly the same.". "I think before the tsunami I was blind. They succeeded only because of their strong will. The in-lecture quizzes are always easy for him becase they are like the stopping to ask a comprehension question, which he knows so well.

It’s a great introduction to college learning.

He trusted his cast with "a lot of improvisation" and filmed key scenes unscripted. This is a post by Michael, Daniel’s father. Bayona. Directed by J.A. It is something new in the world for an undergraduate –especially a seventeen year old autistic one– to be able to study Ancient Greek literature from very different points of view at Penn, Wesleyan and the University of Virginia. Attempting the Impossible: why does western cinema whitewash Asian stories? We hope you enjoy Daniel’s story as much as we have. Belon has high praise for director Juan Antonio Bayona, who she says has made an accurate account of her harrowing story for the big screen - with only one discrepancy.

With Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast. All rights reserved. Someone made a forum topic out if it and for 72 hours “Not impossible” was the top thread on the ModPo forum as people wrote in from all over saying that Dan had inspired them and that “not impossible” was going to be their new watchword. He thought it was his own personal water park everyday, but he's 14 and he's got great athletic abilities, and I'm not close to either of those things," she adds.