A Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin’s Mother Tells the Family Story
by Eustacia Cutler
Eustacia Cutler is the mother of Temple Grandin, Ph.D., a successful author and lecturer who has autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this ...
Audience
- 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
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
New York Times Best-Seller! This book speaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism, bringing with her an ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
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 in the Family: Redefining Normal
by Liane Holliday Willey
The author and one of her daughters have Asperger Syndrome. Through personal vignettes, frank discussions and practical suggestions, Willey looks ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Asperger Syndrome, the Universe and Everything
by Kenneth Hall
Kenneth Hall was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at the age of eight. His early school years had been difficult, as although he is bright and ...
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- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Autism is Not A Life Sentence: How One Family Took on Autism and Won!
by Lynley Summers and Jessica “Jazz” Summers
Autism is Not a Life Sentence is about a mother-daughter team who worked together to build a life of fulfillment and success – not by beating ...
Audience
- Parents
Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences with Autism and Asperger Syndrome, 2nd Ed.
by Stephen Shore, Ed.D.
This honest, courageous book, written by a person with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome, offers so much more than the traditional ...
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
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
Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
by Valerie Paradiz, Ph.D.
Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Embarrassed Often...Ashamed Never: Quips and Short Stories from One Family's Ongoing Adventure with Asperger Syndrome and Autism
by Lisa Elliott
From swim meets to Chinese restaurants, from school to church, to birthday parties, and everything in between, this book gives the reader a genuine ...
Audience
- Parents
Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum
by Robert Parish
Through sensitive, sometimes humorous, experienced-based writing from teachers, clinicians, and parent activists in the Autism Spectrum Disorder ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- 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
Everybody is Different - A Book for Young People Who Have Brothers or Sisters with Autism
by Fiona Bleach
Many young people have a hard time understanding the complexities of what autism Is and why people with autism engage in the behaviors that they do. ...
Audience
- Parents
Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User's Guide to Adolescence
by Tony Attwood and Luke Jackson
Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
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
Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
by Jenny McCarthy
One morning, Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evan's room and found ...
Audience
- Parents
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
Making Lemonade: Hints for Autism's Helpers
by Judy Endow, MSW
Fascinating storytelling and classic elements of poetry combine to allow the reader into the world of autism. Faced with a lifetime of "lemons," ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
More Than Little Professors-Children with Asperger Syndrome: In Their Own Words
Eric Hoffer Aware Honorable Mention, Memoir (2010)
International Book Award Winner (2010)
by Lisa Barrett Mann, M.S.Ed.
There are countless books with information about children with Asperger Syndrome, but very few offer a personal look into the inner lives of these ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Parents
Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story
by Johnny Dodd|, Jerry Newport and , Mary Newport
When Jerry and Mary Newport met, the connection was instant. A musical genius and a mathematical wonder, the two shared astronomic IQs, but they ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
My Best Friend Will
by Jamie Lowell and Tara Tuchel, M.S., CCC-SLP
This stunning black-and-white photo journal chronicles the relationship between 11-year-old neurotypical Jamie and her friend Willie who has autism. ...
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
Pretending to Be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome
by Liane Holliday Willey
The author of this autobiography did not recognize that she had Asperger Syndrome until her daughter was diagnosed. The book describes the author's ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Right Address...Wrong Planet: Children With Asperger Syndrome Becoming Adults
by Gena Barnhill, Ph.D., NCSP
In this much-needed resource, the author, a mother who holds a doctoral degree in autism spectrum disorders, shares the difficulties encountered by ...
Audience
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
Sibling Stories: Reflections on Life with a Brother or Sister on the Autism Spectrum
by Lynne Stern Feiges and Mary Jane Weiss
Sibling relationships involving a brother or sister with an autism spectrum dis-order can present enormous emotional challenges for everyone ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- 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
The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism
EDITED BY: Kate Winslet and The Golden Hat Foundation
by Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet's The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism (Simon & Schuster, release date March 27, 2012; $29.95) is a special project from the Academy ...
Audience
- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
The Other Half of Asperger Syndrome: A Guide to an Intimate Relationship with a Partner who has Asperger Syndrome
by Maxine C. Aston
Based on research, her experiences as a counselor specializing in this area, as well as her personal relationship experiences, the author explores ...
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 ...
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- Educators and Professionals
- Individuals with ASD
- Parents
