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 Girl with Big, Big Questions
"From the bestselling Big, Big series comes a book that celebrates the spirit of curiosity and encourages kids to courageously ask their hard questions ""Why can't people live on the moon?"" ""Can I be president when I grow up?"" ""What makes a person good?"" These are just some of the questions that bubble forth from one little girl with twinkling eyes and a curious mind. When the girl finds that her big questions make some people uncomfortable, she stops. But then she learns that her questions can solve problems and that asking questions is how we learn and grow..."
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10 August 2021
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The Boy with Big, Big Feelings
"An instant classic in the world of Social-Emotional Learning, this bestselling picture book tells the story of one little boy with some big, big emotions -- and how he learns to see them for the gifts they are. The Boy with Big, Big Feelings is relatable for any child -- especially for a child experiencing anxiety, extreme emotions, a child identified as a Highly Sensitive Person, or a child on the autism spectrum. Beautifully illustrated and written in rhyming verse, children and adults explore the whole spectrum of feelings and readers navigate the emotional challenges they face throughout the day."
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20 August 2019
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Autism Friendly Business: Neurodiverse Customers
Designed as a guidebook for leaders at the beginning of their journey embracing neuroinclusion, Autism Friendly Business: Serving Neurodiverse Customers will provide business owners, executives, managers, team members, and associates the tools to integrate strategies and techniques that will enhance their business, while improving the delivery of a quality experience for all. Autistic individuals often experience barriers when engaging with businesses. This book provides solutions and examples on how leaders can remove obstacles to develop supportive and inclusive environments.
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July 4, 2023
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Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
"An ethnographic study of diverse children on the autism spectrum and the role of media and technology in their everyday lives. In spite of widespread assumptions that young people on the autism spectrum have a “natural” attraction to technology—a premise that leads to significant speculation about how media helps or harms them—relatively little research actually exists about their everyday tech use. In Kids Across the Spectrums, Meryl Alper fills this gap with the first book-length ethnography of the digital lives of autistic young people. Based on research with more than sixty neurodivergent children from an array of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, Kids Across the Spectrums delves into three overlapping areas of their media usage: cultural belonging, social relationships, and physical embodiment. "
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Aug 15, 2023
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Great Minds Think Unalike: The Benefits of ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia and OCD
"• 10% different, 100% special: how to turn your difference into your greatest strength ‘A must-read for anyone who combines a neurodivergent brain with good intelligence.’ – Prof. dr. Theo Compernolle, neuropsychiatrist and author of Brain Chains and How to Unchain your Brain • ‘Our economy needs creativity and innovation in order to stand out. This book shows that neurodivergent people can make all the difference. A book brimming with positivity!’ – Vivian Roks, Innovation Lead Randstad Group.."
Social Skills Training: For Children and Adolescents with Autism, 20th Anniversary Edition.
"If you have been waiting for a social skills training program that really works, this is it! Dr. Baker translates 20 years of outcome research and clinical experience into this new, user friendly model to support social skills training. There are 92 specific skill lessons covering: Emotion management (frustration, anger, anxiety, OCD, social fears and depression) Verbal and non verbal communication Play and group interaction Empathy, friendship and dating Conflict management Dealing with emergency situations.."
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Aug 1, 2023
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How Do I Do This?: The Real and Raw Truth About Raising a Child with Special Needs
"Are You a Parent of a Child With Special Needs? Are You Feeling Overwhelmed By What This Means and What the Future Might Hold? Are You Needing Encouragement and Hope For the Journey Ahead? Then this book is for you! My daughter Sarah is 28. She is non-verbal autistic. When Sarah was first diagnosed, I felt devastated. The fear of the unknown as to what lay ahead was overwhelming. I was forced to travel a road I had never imagined I would be on, and which was often so hard that I could barely breathe. Yet on that road I met countless wonderful people who helped and supported me and Sarah, many of whom I have interviewed for this book..."
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August 3, 2020
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Never Give Up: Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster of an Autism Parent
Never Give Up! Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster of an Autism Parent is the honest and heart-wrenching story of the Cain family's journey from the despair of initial diagnosis of their children's autism to inspiration and cautious hope for the future. It is written to encourage other parents of children with autism and the title says it all.Monique shares her practical and emotional struggles honestly along with the lessons she learned along the way about herself, about life, and about loving her children and accepting them for who they are. The book is filled with practical tips and insights that will help anyone who deals with the daily challenges of engaging children with autism and helping them achieve their potential.This is an inspiring book that you can read yourself for insight into daily life with an autistic child or share with friends and family who have children with autism. You can read it from cover to cover or dip into it for the practical advice and encouragement that
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March 6, 2019
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Thriving Together: An Essential Guide: Finding Support and Mastering Self-Care for Caregivers of Children With Additional Support Needs by Alondra Beth Rogers
Everyone knows self-care is important, but how do you actually do it when your child's needs are so much more than you anticipated? Thriving Together offers research-based tips on how the work of self-care gets done. Spoiler: you're not meant to do this all on your own. With a focus on getting the support parents and caregivers need to manage their own self-care, find practical tips delivered with respect for how difficult it is to make it all happen. Written by neurodivergent social worker, Autism consultant, and mother to a non-speaking Autistic child, Thriving Together provides an outline of how to manage caring for yourself while being the caregiver you want to be. Topics include how to access your community and social care programs, everyday self-care, and managing in times of high stress or crisis all backed by research to be the most effective coping tools.
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June 30, 2023
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Peculiar Discipleship: An Autistic Liberation Theology by Claire Williams
This is not a theology of neurodiversity. It is a theology from neurodiversity. In her ground-breaking and daring theological exploration, Claire Williams considers how the experience of God for an autistic person challenges and interrogates our normal theologies about knowing God. Demonstrating how her autistic perspective offers a distinct and fresh hermeneutical lens, Williams shows that a liberation theology of neurodiversity can gift the church a new way of understanding worship, practice, ethics and even the nature of Christian hope itself.
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30 June 2023
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