A 5 Is Against the Law! Social Boundaries – Straight Up! An honest guide for teens and young adults
Autism Society of America Outstanding Literary Year (2008)
by Kari Dunn Buron
Building on Kari Dunn Buron's popular The Incredible 5-Point Scale, this book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum: A Parent’s Guide to Cognitive, Social, Physical, and Transition Needs of Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
by Chantal Sicile-Kira
This practical guide offers parents strategies for helping their children, whatever their ability level, through the physical and emotional changes ...
Audience
- Parents
Adult Package
by Kate Duffy, M.S.|, Temple Grandin, Ph.D.|, Stephen Shore, Ed.D. and , Zosia Zaks, M.S., M.Ed.
Many adults on the spectrum do not realize their potential, as evidenced by a dismal employment rate, few friendships, and limited independent ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome
by Kathy Hoopmann
This book takes a playful look at Asperger Syndrome, drawing inspiration from the feline world. Delightful color photographs of cats bring to life ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
An Asperger Marriage
by Chris Slater-Walker and Gisela Slater-Walker
Four years ago, Chris Slater-Walker was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. For him this was an explanation of why he has always regarded himself as ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Ask and Tell: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum
by Stephen Shore, Ed.D.
Edited by Stephen Shore, Ask and Tell aims to help people with autism effectively self-advocate in their pursuit of independent, productive, and ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships
by Ashley Stanford
Ashley Stanford is married to a man with Asperger Syndrome, and her book provides the answers to many of the questions asked by the increasing ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook
by Roger N. Meyer and Tony Attwood
This self-paced workbook is intended for mature adults with Asperger Syndrome. The guide assists readers in composing their autobiographical work ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Autism Spectrum Quarterly Spring 2011
by Kate Duffy, M.S.
Autism Spectrum Quarterly Spring 2011 features Developing Talents, Diary of a Social Detective and Trainman.
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Autism-Asperger’s & Sexuality: Puberty and Beyond
by Jerry Newport and Mary Newport
This book is a groundbreaking, personal look at the sexual challenges of those diagnosed with autism or Asperger's Syndrome. Authors Jerry and Mary ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Becoming Remarkably Able: Walking the Path to Talents, Interests, and Personal Growth
by Jackie Marquette, Ph.D.
The Walking the Path Model is a much-needed resource designed to guide youth with autism spectrum disorders to identify their gifts and strengths. ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Behavioral Package
by Judy Endow, MSW|, Elaine Marie Larson|, Brenda Smith Myles, Ph.D. and , Jack Southwick
This package will meet all of your behavior needs! It will (a) help children on the spectrum better understand their behavior issues, (b) get ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Born on the Wrong Planet
by Erika Hammerschmidt
This story of the childhood and young adulthood of Erika Hammerschmidt, a young woman diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, takes the reader into a ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Dear John
by Nicholas Sparks
John Tyree enlisted in the army not knowing that during a leave he'd fall in love with Savannah Lynn Curtis, the woman who changed his life forever. ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism - Updated and Expanded Edition
by Kate Duffy, M.S. and Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
This updated and expanded edition considers the continuing dismal employment statistics for individuals with ASD. The authors take an in-depth look ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome
by Echo R. Fling
This honest and straighforward account of a mother's struggle to cope with the challenges of having a son with Asperger Syndrome provides parents ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Emergence: Labeled Autistic
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
She lived in a world like no other – she longed for affection but feared human contact. Unable to experience reality as other children could, ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability: Stories and Strategies
by Yvona Fast
Most people with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) are underemployed. With practical and technical advice on everything ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Empowered Autism Parenting: Celebrating (and Defending)Your Child's Place in the World
by William Stillman
How parents can appreciate their autistic children prevent them from being pathologized, over-medicated, and marginalized. In this groundbreaking ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Fiction Package
by Catherine Bristow|, Joanna Keating-Velasco and , Anne Sutcliffe
Fiction helps readers understand and relate to issues, events, and people, including increasing their own self-awareness. For this set of AAPC ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Incentives for Change: Motivating People with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Learn and Gain Independence
by Lara Delmolino and Sandra L. Harris, Ph.D.
People with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be difficult to motivate, especially when asked to learn something new. Finding the right incentives ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Intimate Relationships and Sexual Health: A Curriculum for Teaching Adolescents/Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Challenges
by Catherine Davies and Melissa Dubie MS
This comprehensive and well-researched curriculum fills a long-felt need in the autism community--a frank, up-to-date resource on sexuality tailored ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Learning the Hidden Curriculum: The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult
by Judy Endow, MSW
Drawing from her personal experiences, Judy Endow, author of the 2010 and 2011 Hidden Curriculum Calendars, provides lots of hidden curriculum ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults
by Zosia Zaks, M.S., M.Ed.
Written for adults on the spectrum and those involved - parents, spouses, friends - this book is divided into two sections: life and love. In the ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Life with a Partner or Spouse with Asperger Syndrome: Going Over the Edge? Practical Steps to Saving You and Your Relationship
by Kathy J. Marshack, Ph.D.
Delve into the dramatic impact Asperger Syndrome can have on the complex world of adult interpersonal relationships. Psychologist Kathy Marshack ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits – an inclination ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That's Right for You
by Loren Pope
An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation's most respected experts on the ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Loving the Tasmanian Devil -
Reflections on Marriage and Asperger Syndrome
by Maureen McCarthy Bartlett
Having a partner with Asperger Syndrome can feel like a roller-coaster ride for the neurotypical spouse -- riding high one moment on the spouse’s ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Mike's Crush
by Nancy Nowell
The Mike's Crush curriculum and DVD set teaches the social skills needed for healthy adolescent friend, boyfriend and girlfriend relationships. ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD
by Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA
The only book on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity (ADHD) written in a structure that caters to ADHD sufferers' tendency to jump around, this ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
More Team-Building Activities for Every Group
by Alanna Jones
As a sequel to the popular book "Team-Building Activities for Every Group" this book contains 107 more games and activities that promote ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Newly Updated! Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens & Young Adults
by Michelle Garcia Winner
This anime-illustrated guidebook is for teens and young adults to read themselves to learn how the social mind is expected to work for us to ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Paper Words: Discovering and Living with My Autism
International Book Awards Finalist (2010)
by Judy Endow, MSW
In this intensely personal book, readers are swept up into a fast-paced journey of how author Judy Endow noticed her differences early on, how she ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Realizing the College Dream with Autism or Asperger Syndrome' A Parent's Guide to Student Success
by Ann Palmer
This accessible book focuses on how parents can help their ASD child to get to college, and how to get the most out of it. Ann Palmer offers ...
Audience
- Parents
Solutions for Adolescents and Adults Catalog Combo
by Maxine C. Aston and Kathy J. Marshack, Ph.D.
Purchase both Life with a Partner or Spouse with Asperger Syndrome: Going Over the Edge? Practical Steps to Saving You and Your Relationship AND The ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Somebody, Somewhere: Breaking Free From the World of Autism
by Donna Williams
In the acclaimed sequel to Nobody Nowhere, author Donna Williams gives readers a guided tour of life with autism. Williams describes her personal ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
Students with Asperger Syndrome: A Guide for College Personnel
by G. Ruth Bork, M.Ed.|, Jane Thierfeld Brown, Ed.D. and , Lorraine Wolf, Ph.D.
For many students with autism spectrum disorders, getting admitted to college is the easy part. Surviving and succeeding can be quite another, as ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
Succeeding in College with Asperger Syndrome: A Student Guide
by Michael Fitzgerald|, John Harpur and , Maria Lawlor
College Life is particularly stressful for students with Asperger Syndrome. This much-needed guide provides information to help these students ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
The Integrated Self-Advocacy ISA™ Curriculum: A Program for Emerging Self-Advocates with Autism Spectrum and Other Conditions (Student Workbook)
International Book Award Finalist (2010)
by Valerie Paradiz, Ph.D.
Self-advocacy plays a vital role in nearly every aspect of life for individuals on the spectrum, in school, at home, in the community and at work. ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
The Integrated Self-Advocacy ISA™ Curriculum: A Program for Emerging Self-Advocates with Autism Spectrum and Other Conditions (Teacher Edition)
International Book Award Finalist (2010)
by Valerie Paradiz, Ph.D.
Self-advocacy plays a vital role in nearly every aspect of life for individuals on the spectrum, in school, at home, in the community and at work. ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
The Parent’s Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum
by G. Ruth Bork, M.Ed.|, Lisa King MEd|, Jane Thierfeld Brown, Ed.D. and , Lorraine Wolf, Ph.D.
Sending a son or daughter off to college is daunting and fear-provoking experience for most parents, but if your child has an autism spectrum ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
The Planner Guide (2010)
by Jane Burke, M.A.|, Chantal Charron, M.A., CCC-SLP and , Bob Steinkamp, M.A., Ed.S.
An Organizational and Reference System for People with Social and Cognitive Challenges Designed for adolescents and adults, The Planner Guide is ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
The Speed of Dark
by Elizabeth Moon
The book, The Speed of Dark, tells the fictional story of an autistic man, Lou, in the near future. This story, told from Lous' point of view, is a ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports From My Life With Autism
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
In this unprecedented book, Temple delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspective of a scientist and a person with ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Understanding Autism for Dummies
by Linda G. Rastelli and Stephen Shore, Ed.D.
From within the autism spectrum, Stephen Shore joins forces with veteran writer Linda Rastelli to write the long overdue Understanding Autism for ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
by Roy Richard Grinker
This global exploration of autism by a scientist--and father of an autistic child--is the first book to show that the "epidemic" holds surprising ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Understanding and Managing Social Challenges for Those With Asperger's or Autism
by Sean Barron and Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Based on their unique history of growing up "outside the norm," Temple Grandin and Sean Barron explain what they have learned about the "core" of ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
