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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism

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This links to a great list of resources at the Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism blog. The whole website looks really useful and there’s also a book that compiles some of their best writing as well. 

Look for some of these titles being featured here in the months to come. 

BOOKS

Adults With Autism

• Be Different by John Elder Robison
• Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammett
• Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
• Thinking in Pictures (or indeed any book by) Temple Grandin
• The Uncharted Path by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg

Approaches and Advice

• Ask and Tell: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum by Stephen Shore
• The Autism Mom’s Survival Guide by Susan Senator
• Behavioral Intervention for Young Children With Autism: A Manual for Parents and Professionals by Catherine Maurice
• Coloring Outside Autism’s Lines: 50+ Activities, Adventures, and Celebrations for Families with Children with Autism by Susan Walton 
• Managing Meltdowns: Using the S.C.A.R.E.D. Calming Technique With Children and Adults With Autism by Deb Lipsky

Historical and Cultural Contexts

• The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson 
• Not Even Wrong by Paul Collins
• Unstrange Minds by Roy Richard Grinker 

For Kids With Autism

• A is for “All Aboard” by Paula Kluth and Victoria Kluth
• All Cats Have Asperger’s Syndrome by Kathy Hoopman

Parenting Perspectives

• Cowboy and Wills by Monica Holloway
• Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum, eds. Kyra Anderson and Vicki Forman
• Making Peace With Autism by Susan Senator
• My Baby Rides the Short Bus, eds. Yantra Bertelli, Jen Silverman, and Sarah Talbot 
• Not My Boy! A Father, A Son, and One Family’s Journey With Autism by Rodney Peete
• A Regular Guy: Growing Up With Autism by Laura Shumaker 

For Siblings of Kids With Autism

•  My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete
• Ian’s Walk by Laurie Lears
• Andy and His Yellow Frisbee by Mary Thompson

(via teachingliteracy)