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Jacqui Jackson
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Jackson and her family appeared in a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary, My Family and Autism, screened in 2003. A drama called Magnificent 7 featuring Helena Bonham Carter as Maggi—a character based on Jacqui Jackson—was screened by British Broadcasting Corporation Two in 2005. "lieutenant"s a warm, moving and largely unsentimentalized portrait of lives lived at different points along the autism spectrum.
Imaginative camerawork gives viewers brief insights into how the boys variously engage with the world (their autism manifests itself in everything from colour-sensitivity to an inability to understand idiom).
But it"s Sandy Welch"s script - humane and funny - and the remarkable performances (the children match Bonham Carter every step of the way) that give this an irresistible power and poignancy." Jackson lives in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The music was written by Sheridan Tongue.
Jackson"s sons are:.
