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
Healing the Liminal: Lessons & Parables for Finding Your Way
As a multiracial, autistic, intuitive artist, Marcella Kroll has spent years understanding and appreciating the freedom that comes with being born in a world in which no predetermined path existed for her. For creatives, for healers, for the neurodivergent, and anyone else who is searching for their place, this book is a celebration of unconventional existences through history, space, and timeâwith parables and lessons from Marcellaâs ancestors, and other spirits with whom she has connected, even throughout the cosmos. Learn to understand your multidimensional, constantly changing soul through the prism of these stories, as well as the practical advice that Marcella has acquired through decades of study.
Kindle
11 February 2025
Paid for Kindle
English
Opening Boxes: How to Navigate Life When You Have Autism
Opening Boxes: How to Navigate Life When You Have Autism offers an essential guide for individuals on the autism spectrum who want to break through barriers and build more meaningful, successful interactions with neurotypicals. Written by Jay Rothman, an autistic author who only discovered his diagnosis at the age of 46, this book provides practical advice on overcoming obstacles in daily life, from workplace challenges to personal relationships.
Kindle
Paperback
10 February 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
On Being an Autistic Therapist
This book is about working as autistic counsellors and psychotherapists. It is a collection of stand-alone chapters put together by members of the international online collective Autistic Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ACP). It shares their main aims: to tackle the lack of appropriate therapy available to autistic clients and to challenge the common stereotypes about autistic people, which are still very much alive and can bar them both from therapy and therapy training. But, because the writers have lived experience of the issues they are working with, they are also writing about ways of working most effectively and helpfully with autistic people. And that is what makes it unique. Each chapter describes both how the writer perceives and processes the world and how they work with clients. Their stories provide incontrovertible evidence that the existence of autistic therapists, far from being problematic or even a contradiction, is quite simply normal. And that neurodiversity, just
Kindle
Paperback
6 February 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Social Work Practice in Autism and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This volume provides a range of perspectives, practices, and ideas relative to social workâs engagements with individuals living with autism, intellectual disability and developmental disabilities. Contributors in this peer-reviewed volume include social work practitioners, academic and community-based researchers, educators, activists, and self-advocates. Reflecting different ways of theorizing, speaking about, and working with people with autism and intellectual disability and developmental disabilities, it explores both tensions and possibilities for social work practice, research, education, advocacy and policy development that better meet their needs and desires for their lives.
Kevin P. Stoddart, Ann Fudge Schormans
Kindle
Paperback
8 April 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Autism and Being Monotropic: What Medical and Other Practitioners Need to Know (SpringerBriefs in Modern Perspectives on Disability Research)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences and challenges faced by autistics who have not been understood or accommodated due to their monotropic cognitive style. This book aims to increase understanding and awareness of monotropism, its tributaries (object permanence; external senses and connections to interoception) as well as offer a roadmap to aid and support autistic monotropic individuals.
Kindle
Paperback
31 January 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Breastfeeding, Autism & ADHD: Understanding extra support needs and positives for the Autistic or ADHD breastfeeding mother, parent and child
This book is an easy to read summary of the positives and challenges of breastfeeding for autistic and ADHD women and people, and those breastfeeding an autistic child. Designed to feature standalone chapters, this book clearly lays out all of the information about autism and ADHD a breastfeeding mother or parent may need. This book is also suitable for professionals and supporters to learn about breastfeeding, autism and ADHD.
Kindle
Paperback
24 January 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Autism: Its Foundation and Practical Implications
The following chapter explores and explains what âlies beneathâ the diagnosis of autism. The foundation for this chapter is based on original knowledge grounded in the theory of monotropism, heralded in the 2005 paper by Murray, Lesser and Lawson. The work on monotropism began in the 90âs and has been followed through until present times. Current research is supportive of the monotropism theory of autism which posits autism as âa matter of attentionâ, specifically âmonotropic attentionâ. When attention is captured by interest (for whatever reason) it occupies the whole of oneâs attention. This impacts concepts such as being literal (not reading between the lines), missing the subtle cues of social interaction and highlighting or underwhelming our sensory systems, challenges with object permanence and being misunderstood. But it also leads to incredible strengths and allows for oneâs passion to be a source of joy, stability and an aid to mental fitness. When an individualâs autism is un
Kindle
23 January 2025
Free for Kindle
English
Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences
Trans and Disabled is a collection of essays, poetry, and other forms of work from a wide range of individuals who are trans and disabled. This book explores what being trans and disabled means for others but also describes everyday life for those of us who are. I genuinely loved this collection. As someone who is trans and disabled, some of essays and poems made me feel almost like I was looking in a mirror. It gives me hope for our (collective trans and disabled) future to know that weâre not done fighting and we wonât go down quietly. It also just made me feel seen, and like I wasnât alone in my experiences. It is hard to not feel like a tiny island in the middle of a vast ocean when youâre trans and disabled, but this brought others into view. If there was anything to change, it would simply be to add more stories and more artwork but it is so wonderful as is. Iâve already recommended it to all of my friends.
Kindle
Paperback
21 January 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Stop the World I Want to Get Off: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting the Recovery of Autistic Burnout in Children and Young People
Autistic burnout is a common experience for autistic children and young people. This book, authored by a neurodivergent practitioner with firsthand experience as both an autism parent and researcher, delves into the recognition and management of burnout. It offers parents and professionals practical strategies to prevent autistic burnout and provides guidance on supporting those already in distress.
Kindle
Paperback
21 January 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools: Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted & Supported (Free Spirit ProfessionalÂź)
Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools is a guide for K-12 educators to better understand neurodivergence and help neurodivergent students thrive. Inside, youâll find the background information and concrete practices you need to create a school or classroom culture where neurodivergent students feel safe, valued, and understood. Youâll also find clear explanations of behaviors common in neurodivergent learners, such as masking, rejection sensitivity, and novelty seeking. Then, discover specific practices that you can use right away.
Emily Kircher-Morris, Amanda Morin
Kindle
Paperback
21 January 2025
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English