Autism and Aspergers Books
My Child's Different: The lessons learned from one familys struggle to unlock their sons potential
Elaine Halligan's My Child's Different: The lessons learned from one family's struggle to unlock their son's potential explores the enabling role that parents can play in bringing the best out of... (more)
Instructions Not Supplied: A story of adoption autism and coming together as a family
Instructions Not Supplied is the account of one family’s experience in adopting three children, each of whom turned out to have special needs, and the challenges they have faced along the way. Some... (more)
Successful Social Articles into Adulthood: Growing Up with Social Stories ™
The first book that explains how to use Social Stories (TM) to support younger adults with autism focuses on some of the most common issues that arise as they enter the adult world. Siobhan Timmins... (more)
Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic... (more)
Girls with Autism Becoming Women
This insightful book investigates the experiences of seven women with autism as they transition from childhood to adulthood, and how they make sense of that journey. Taken from the autobiographies of... (more)
Working with Girls and Young Women with an Autism Spectrum Condition: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
This guide shows how clinicians can help girls and young women with ASC to reach their full potential, by adopting more relationship-based, individualised approaches. With contributions from young... (more)
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as... (more)
Forest School and Autism
Forest School's innovative outdoor approach offers specific benefits to learners with autism, including increased social skills, raised self-esteem and improved sensory function. This guide raises... (more)
The Parents' Practical Guide to Resilience for Preteens and Teenagers on the Autism Spectrum
This book empowers parents of autistic young people aged 11 to 20 to help them promote resilience in their child. Full of suggestions and simple activities, this easy-to-use resource will help guide... (more)
Sex and the Single Aspie
This ground-breaking book about sexuality speaks to women on the autism spectrum in fresh new ways, opening doors to discussion, and blowing the lid off taboo subjects. One of the many problems... (more)
Difference Not Disorder: Understanding Autism Theory in Practice
Interventions and educational approaches for children with autism spectrum disorders have developed in response to the different models for how autism has been constructed and understood. This book... (more)
Coming Home to Autism: A Room-by-Room Approach to Supporting Your Child at Home after ASD Diagnosis
What does an autism diagnosis mean for everyday family life? Explore different rooms in the home to better understand how children with autism experience daily activities, and what you can do to... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults: Clinical Intervention Methods and Technique
Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults deals with the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties of working with patients with autistic residuals, formed in early life experiences that... (more)
Treating Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A psychoanalytic and developmental approach
Treating Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Psychoanalytic and Developmental Approach outlines a unique model, the product of over twenty years of experience in working with children with... (more)
Communicating Partners: Developmental Guides for Professionals and Parents
Children with autism and their life partners - their parents, families, peers and educators - who are not on the autism spectrum can feel as though they live in separate and even incompatible worlds.... (more)
Parent to Parent: Information and Inspiration for Parents Dealing with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Providing important information, which will empower other parents of children with autism or Asperger's syndrome, Ann Boushey explains to parents their rights in mapping out their child's care. (more)
An Exact Mind: An Artist with Asperger Syndrome
Peter Myers' intricate and ornately patterned drawings are brought together for the first time in this volume, which is the fascinating result of the collaboration of an artist and two scientists.... (more)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths... (more)
Asperger Syndrome and Adults... Is Anyone Listening?: Essays and Poems by Spouses, Partners and Parents of Adults with Asperger Syndrome
The emotional problems experienced by those close to adults with Asperger's Syndrome are often over-looked. Focusing on the Cassandra phenomenon, this volume gathers letters, thoughts and poems to... (more)
Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits
Recognising the different levels and kinds of giftedness, this book provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. (more)
Asperger's Syndrome in Young Children: A Developmental Guide for Parents and Professionals
This landmark book focuses on how AS presents in pre-school children. An essential guide for parents coming to terms with their child's AS diagnosis and for the professionals who work with this age... (more)
The Development of Autism: A Self-Regulatory Perspective
Tom Whitman proposes a new developmental theory of autism that focuses on the diversity of characteristics associated with this disorder, and how these develop over time. This theory is reconciled... (more)
Autism and Creativity: Is There a Link Between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?
Autism and Creativity is a stimulating study of male creativity and autism, arguing that a major genetic endowment is a prerequisite of genius, and that cultural and environmental factors are less... (more)
Multicoloured Mayhem: Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescents and Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD
Jacqui Jackson has seven children. Luke has Asperger's syndrome, Joe has ADHD and Ben has autism. This title explains vividly what it is like to parent young people with such a range of conditions... (more)
Can I tell you about Asperger Syndrome?
Meet Adam - a young boy with AS. Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective. He helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS - he tells them what AS is,... (more)
The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism
The compelling story of Walker Stacey - a child who triumphed over his autistic tendencies with the dedicated help of his family.