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
Autism: A New Introduction to Psychological Theory and Current Debate
Based on Francesca Happé’s best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism. Fletcher-Watson and Happé explore the relationship between theories of autism at psychological (cognitive), biological and behavioural levels, and consider their clinical and educational impact.
Paperback
January 24, 2019
Paid for Paperback
English
Learning Empathy: The Memoirs of An Autistic Savant
Most people assume that I'm slow. Some people are shocked that I'm smart enough to talk. I was emotionally delayed by 15 years. That diagnosis was based on a lack of empathy. For some reason I stopped maturing at 7. Luckily, I started again around 22 years old.
Kindle
Paperback
February 10, 2022
Free for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Now revised and expanded, this is the leading resource for psychotherapists working with adults who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without significant cognitive and language impairments (also known as Asperger syndrome). Valerie L. Gaus shows how to adapt the proven techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to build clients' social and coping skills, facilitate self-acceptance, and treat comorbid anxiety and depression.
Paperback
November 7, 2018
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The Autistic Trans Guide to Life
This essential survival guide gives autistic trans and/or non-binary adults all the tools and strategies they need to live as their very best self.
Kindle
Paperback
March 18, 2021
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind
An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the “problem” by teaching him to read and write. The result was that between the ages of eight and eleven he wrote stories and poems of exquisite beauty, which Dr. Oliver Sacks called “amazing and shocking.”
Kindle
Paperback
April 1, 2011
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
Paid for eBook
English
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly, and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story,”
Kindle
Paperback
April 2, 2020
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology
From artist and curator Bex Ollerton comes an anthology featuring comics from thirty autistic creators about their experiences of living in a world that doesn’t always understand or accept them. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum contains illustrated explorations of everything from life pre-diagnosis to tips on how to explain autism to someone who isn't autistic,
Paperback
October 18, 2022
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Underestimated: An Autism Miracle (Children’s Health Defense)
In Underestimated: An Autism Miracle, Generation Rescue’s cofounder J.B. Handley and his teenage son Jamison tell the remarkable story of Jamison’s journey to find a method of communication that allowed him to show the world that he was a brilliant, wise, generous, and complex individual who had been misunderstood and underestimated by everyone in his life.
J. B. Handley and Jamison Handley
Kindle
Paperback
March 23, 2021
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Asperger(HFASD) - The Elusive Syndrome: An Applied Guide for Rehabilitating Adults and Adolescents With High Functioning Autism
A comprehensive guide that offers a unique and detailed rehabilitation program for adults with Asperger’s (ASD), who are diagnosed as high-functioning on the Autistic Spectrum.
Kindle
Paperback
November 24, 2019
Free for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Nathan's Autism Spectrum Superpowers (One Three Nine Inspired Book 1)
This book is a TOOL written by a mom/pediatric physical therapist to help kids, family, friends and caregivers understand Autism Spectrum and some of the struggles and superpowers associated with it.
Lori Yarborough and Natalie Merheb
Kindle
Paperback
October 9, 2018
Free for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English