Books can play a big role in helping you and your child with Autism. Youâll 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
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding individuals of âautisticâ symptoms such as difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism donât aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individualâs experience and what underlies the behavior.
Kindle
Paperback
July 19, 2016
Free for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Mindful Parenting for ADHD: A Guide to Cultivating Calm, Reducing Stress, and Helping Children Thrive (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
If you are a parent of a child with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you probably face many unique daily challenges. Kids with ADHD are often inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive, since ADHD affects all of self-management and self-regulation. As a result, you might become chronically frustrated or stressed out, which makes caring for ADHD that much harder. In this book, a developmental pediatrician presents a proven-effective program for helping both you and your child with ADHD stay cool and collected while remaining flexible, resilient, and mindful.
Kindle
Paperback
September 1, 2015
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The Alligator Who Liked To Jump
Archie is an autistic alligator, who worries that being âdifferent' from the other animals will make him stand out. Archie likes to jump and bounce but the other animals think he shouldn't do this, until the wise elephant tells them that they should listen to Archie. Archie finds it difficult to speak, but he manages to explain how he feels and makes the other animals understand him, so that they realise he isn't all that different, after all! A lovely story told in rhyme, for very young readers, different or not.
Kindle
Paperback
2019
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Dr. Bob's Guide to Stop ADHD in 18 Days
Stop hyperactivity without drugs! This how-to guide can rid your family off medications and detrimental foods - junk foods loaded with sugar, preservatives, dairy products and partially hydrogenated oils (trans fatty acid) - so that your children and families can enjoy optimal, natural health. Experience results in just 18 days.
Kindle
Paperback
1 December 2010
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The Gifts of Autism and Alzheimer's
This book is a spectacular marriage of psychology and physiology - attitude/emotion and biology. You won't view fear or sadness as the only human responses to having a loved one diagnosed with autism or Alzheimer's and it will no longer be possible for you to be able to look at someone you care about with neurological challenged and simultaneously think to yourself, "there's nothing I can do to meaningfully impact my loved one's condition." The author's combined their professional experiences with Autism with their personal experiences in caring with a parent with Alzheimer's. They noted the similarities between the two disabling conditions. Book also includes contributed stories from people with Autism and Alzheimer's along with their families stories.
Kindle
Paperback
December 13, 2013
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Living Through The Haze
Paul Isaacs has High Functioning Autism. In this book he talks about his life and the misunderstandings in his younger years by people around him such as neighbours, teachers and family members. The hardships of being in education while undiagnosed and the difficulties in the work place and being misdiagnosed by Mental Health Professionals. Despite all this he has come through these hard times with the help, love and support from his family and friends. Which he believes is the important backbones of where he is today. He also believes in Autistic specific support for everyone on the spectrum.
Kindle
Paperback
March 1, 2012
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
A Pocket Size Practical Guide for Parents, Professionals and People on the Autistic Spectrum
Paul Isaacs was diagnosed with Autism in 2010 and later diagnosed with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome in 2012. He has worked for Autism Oxford since 2010 presenting speeches and training sessions all around the UK. He has released his autobiography through Chipmunka entitled "Living Through The Haze" & memoirs of visual fragmentation entitled "Life Through A Kaleidoscope". This book is written in an easy to read format for parents, professionals and people on the autistic spectrum and offers help with everyday social situations, tips and strategies for education, employment, self-care skills and more it has been written from the author's perspective and the help is from his autistic parents and through trial and error to help others on the autism spectrum to thrive and be happy.
Paperback
May 2, 2013
Paid for Paperback
English
Living Through The Haze - 2nd edition
Paul Isaacs has High Functioning Autism. In this book he talks about his life and the misunderstandings in his younger years by people around him such as neighbours, teachers and family members. The hardships of being in education while undiagnosed and the difficulties in the work place and being misdiagnosed by Mental Health Professionals. Despite all this he has come through these hard times with the help, love and support from his family and friends. Which he believes is the important backbones of where he is today. He also believes in Autistic specific support for everyone on the spectrum..
Understanding & Supporting Autistic Students in Specialised Schools
Paul Isaacs was diagnosed with Autism in 2010 and Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome in 2012. He currently works as an Autism speaker, trainer and consultant for Autism Oxford along with an Autism team. He started working for Autism Oxford in 2009 and is a prominent speaker in and around the UK. This book is for staff of specialist schools and specialist educational bases for students on the Autistic spectrum. It covers many topics around Autism and the environment of schools and bases with tips and advice on what is going on behind the behaviours. It promotes positive understanding, inclusion and being free to be happy and enabled in a positive learning environment.
Paperback
October 17, 2013
Paid for Paperback
English
Autism: Inside Perceptions of Communication, Interaction, Thoughts & Feelings
This book is a collection of reflections and thoughts from a person on the Autism spectrum and their perspective on many different topics of life: communication, employment, selfhood, selflessness and how a person on the Autism spectrum interacts and processes the world around them. It deals with many of the issues (both internal and external and from a personal perspective) that many people with autism have to deal with one way or another in their lives. It also gives a foundation of what a person with autism can gain through experience and self-reflection on certain things that have happened in their lives. The author would like to inspire hope, drive and positivity to people on the spectrum and provide the thought that happiness and helping others is truly the key.
Paperback
20 March 2014
Paid for Paperback
English