Books can play a big role in helping you and your child with Autism. You’ll find books can be a good way to connect with your children as they learn to share, make eye contact and it enhances their speech while reading one with their parents.
Here is a list of specially curated books related to Autism available on Kindle, Pdf version and paperback.
We would love to get recommendations from you on any useful books for children with Autism that are not in this list. You could write to us at contact@autismconnect.com
The Autism Mom's Survival Guide (for Dads, too!): Creating a Balanced and Happy Life While Raising a Child with Autism
Given the daily challenges of raising a child with autism, it’s easy for parents to lose themselves and for their overall quality of life to plummet. Susan Senator interweaves the voices of autism parents, researchers, and professionals to offer guidance and encouragement on how to find happiness and fulfillment in the midst of the struggles of raising an autistic child. Topics include: how to handle feelings of despair and hopelessness; finding fun, even during turbulent times; caring for your marriage; and finding a balance between accepting your child as he or she is and seeking new treatments.
Kindle
Paperback
2010
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Autism in the Family: Caring and Coping Together
How can parents provide the best support for their child with autism-and ensure that the whole family's needs are met? It's a question faced by every parent of a child on the autism spectrum, and this book answers it with keen insight, reassuring honesty, and practical guidance. A psychologist and father of an adult son with autism, Dr. Robert Naseef has both personal and professional expertise to share with overwhelmed families. Weaving wisdom from years of clinical practice with candid first-hand insights on parenting a child from birth through adulthood, Naseef helps parents navigate the complex emotional journey to acceptance guide their child's behavior and development at every age maintain a strong and mutually supportive marriage understand the needs of siblings and provide sensitive support collaborate effectively with professionals address specific issues like meltdowns, food sensitivities, sleeping, and toileting manage stress build a strong circle of support with family.
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Paperback
2012
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
We Said, They Said: 50 Things Parents and Teachers of Students with Autism Want Each Other to Know
Cassie Zupke has talked to a lot of people in her role as the founder and director of a non?profit education and support group for students with Asperger's and high-functioning autism. She's been a mentor, a trainer, and an advocate for children, having attended meetings, reassured parents and teachers, helped dry eyes and offered more advice than was probably wanted to the children's parents and educators . She has initiated programs, thrown some of them out to build better ones, and helped other people launch their own. Over the years, Cassie has worked with untold numbers of families and educators. We Said, They Said is a compilation of what the parents and teachers have told her -- their fears, their concerns, and their passions - in order that all involved with the child's care can understand the things that drive the others so, when they sit down to meet to decide how they're going to best help their child, they can achieve their mutual goal.
Kindle
Paperback
2013
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Crazy Love: A Traumedy about Life with Autism
The day that Macy's store security informed the author that her five year old daughter was boarding a crowded elevator, dragging a naked mannequin by his head, leaving behind a trail of plaster limbs and fine menswear, was the day absurdism became the new world order in the Walter household. Autism isn't funny. Yet, sometimes laughter rises feebly out of the ashes of tragedy, a little befuddled and slightly singed, like a hungover phoenix after mardi gras. Crazy Love: a Traumedy About Life with Autism, is a collection of fragments from the life of a little girl, that smokes out the farcical humor with saucy candor. Fresh as roadkill, from a mother caught in the twin headlights of reality and insanity, Crazy Love captures the dark humor that careens out of control when autism is at the wheel.
What I Wish I'd Known about Raising a Child with Autism: A Mom and a Psychologist Offer Heartfelt Guidance for the First Five Years
Bobbi Sheahan, mother of a child with autism, and psychologist Kathy DeOrnellas, Ph.D., did not write this book to lecture you on how to parent your child. Instead, they offer themselves as your scouts in the field, who have valuable information to share from the moment you realize your kid is different (My, what a quiet baby I have!), to the self-righteous moms on the playground, to holding your marriage together and the realm of routines.
Kindle
Paperback
2011
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Look at My Eyes: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Autism and PDD-NOS: Early Intervention and Navigating the System
Melanie Fowler brings a refreshing and useful balance of personal experience and educated expertise to the discussion of autism spectrum disorders. Melanie does not concern herself with the “whys” or theories surrounding these disorders. Instead, she addresses the daily struggles of children and their families from her perspective as a parent to a son with PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder—not otherwise specified). Melanie tells parents what actually works. Her husband, Seth, joins her at times to offer thoughts and experiences from a dad's perspective. Together, they let parents know that others have been there, that there is hope, that insurance battles can be conquered, and that these special children can progress, learn, and grow. Whether she's describing their potty-training woes or listing supplies that can help improve fine motor skills, Melanie is an honest, experienced cheerleader for the growth and success of these children and their families.
Autism Mom
At age 33, it seemed that Shirley Blaier-Stein had it all. She lived in New York City with her loving husband and beautiful boy and was well into a successful legal career. When her son Dan was diagnosed with autism at age three, her world falls apart. Lonely, isolated, and with no answers or hope from doctors, she realizes that she has to pave her own road to Dan’s healing. Determined to not leave a rock unturned, Shirley dives into learning everything she can about autism and treatments. She comes across the amazing story of Joseph, a spiritual healer who was severely autistic as a child. Joseph explains to her that autism is a language that most people don’t understand, and that parents are the autistic child’s primary healers and channels to the world. Autism Mom unfolds a riveting story on how to understand autism, speak its language, and truly communicate with the autistic child.
Kindle
Paperback
2013
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Paid for Paperback
English
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum physics. But the story of Kristine’s journey with Jake is all the more remarkable because his extraordinary mind was almost lost to autism. At age two, when Jake was diagnosed, Kristine was told he might never be able to tie his own shoes. The Spark is a remarkable memoir of mother and son. Surrounded by “experts” at home and in special ed who tried to focus on Jake’s most basic skills and curtail his distracting interests—moving shadows on the wall, stars, plaid patterns on sofa fabric—Jake made no progress, withdrew more and more into his own world, and eventually stopped talking completely. Kristine knew in her heart that she had to make a change.
Kindle
Paperback
2014
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Asperger's From the Inside Out: A Supportive and Practical Guide for Anyone with Asperger's Syndrome
An intimate, engaging, and insightful guide to coping with Asperger's-from one of the condition's most passionate advocates. Michael John Carley was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at thirty-six-when his young son received the same diagnosis. This fascinating book reveals his personal experience with the confusion and trauma associated with this condition-and offers insights into living an independent and productive life.
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Paperback
2008
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English
Understanding Autism for Dummies
Autism affects more than 1 million children and adults in the United States, and parents may be confused by the behavior of autistic children. This book provides help-and hope-by explaining the differences between various types of autism and delivering the lowdown on behavioral, educational, medical, other interventions. Featuring inspiring autism success stories as well as a list of organizations where people who support those with autism can go for additional help, it offers practical advice on how to educate children as well as insights on helping people with autism use their strengths to maximize their potential in life.
Linda G. Rastelli and Stephen Shore
Kindle
Paperback
2006
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Paid for Paperback
English