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 Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's
Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the REAL issues of autism―the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful dos and don’ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her insider perspective and a great deal of research. These are just some of the specific topics she delves into:
Paperback
November 23, 2015
Paid for Paperback
English
The Social Skills Picture Book
This book uses photographs of students engaging in a variety of real-life social situations. The realistic format plays to the visual strengths of children with ASD to teach appropriate social behaviors. Color photographs illustrate the "right way" and "wrong way" to approach each situation and the positive/negative consequences of each
Kindle
Paperback
January 1, 2001
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The PRT Pocket Guide: Pivotal Response Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders
What is Pivotal Response Treatment? What's the research behind it, what does it look like in practice, and what are some good examples of how to use it? Now one concise book gives professionals and parents all the basics of the widely used PRT—an empirically supported treatments for autism recognized by the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders and the National Standards Project.
Paperback
March 22, 2012
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain (published in hardcover as Neurodiversity)
From ADHD and dyslexia to autism, the number of diagnosis categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last fifty years. With so many people affected, it is time to revisit our perceptions of people with disabilities.
Kindle
Paperback
October 4, 2011
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The New Social Story Book
Since the early 90s, Gray’s world-famous Social Stories have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 15th Anniversary Edition of her best-selling book offers ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, and new sections added are: How to most effectively use and apply the stories;
Kindle
Paperback
November 28, 2015
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits - an inclination to blurt out non-sequiturs, obsessively dismantle radios or dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them) - had earned him the label 'social deviant'.
Kindle
Paperback
September 13, 2007
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia.
Kindle
Paperback
July 12, 2016
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition
Winner of a Silver medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards and Learning Magazine's Teachers Choice Award, 1001 Great Ideas has been a treasured resource in the autism community since 2004. In this expanded second edition, Ellen Notbohm (best-selling author of the revolutionary book Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew) and Veronica Zysk
Paperback
January 1, 2010
Paid for Paperback
English
Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment (Autism and Child Psychopathology Series)
This handbook provides a substantive foundation of autism theory and research, including a comprehensive overview, conceptualization, and history of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and pervasive developmental disorder (PDD). This robust reference work integrates the broad scholarly base of literature coupled with a trenchant analysis of the state of the field in nosology, etiology, assessment, and treatment
Johnny L. Matson and Peter Sturmey
Kindle
Paperback
14 October 2022
Paid for Kindle
Free for Paperback
English
Parenting a Child with Autism: A Modern Guide to Understand and Raise Your ASD Child to Success
Why you should steer clear of Doctor Google and have faith in your own parenting skills and intuition - here's how. When a baby is born, you count the fingers and toes, you wait for the cry, and finally, there is a sense of relief that everything is ok. Over the next few months, you learn so much about this tiny human and, of course, plenty of reading about what to expect.
Kindle
Paperback
14 June 2022
Free for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English