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
Understanding Others in a Neurodiverse World: A Radical Perspective on Communication and Shared Meaning
It was long thought that social communication difficulties experienced by autistic people were due to cognitive and social ‘deficits.’ This book offers a neurodiversity-affirming alternative to this problematic approach by presenting a novel perspective on cross-neurotype communication, for example between autistic and non-autistic people. Autistic people often experience difficulties with social communication. This can impact all areas of life and can contribute to poorer mental health outcomes, reduced opportunities for fulfilling social interactions and barriers to health and social care, education and employment. Understanding Others in a Neurodiverse World offers a new way to conceptualise and understand why cross-neurotype misattunements in communication may happen by taking the double empathy problem – the reframing of social communication difficulties as a two-way problem, not simply the result of an autistic ‘deficit’ – and a cognitive linguistics theory, ‘relevance theory’,
Kindle
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September 4, 2024
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