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 Autistic Guide to Adventure: Active Pursuits from Archery to Wild Swimming for Tweens and Teens
It's time for a new generation of autistic adventurers! Outdoor adventuring can be life changing - it makes you physically and mentally stronger, takes you to new places and introduces you to new friends, as well as being an exhilarating challenge - but it can be stressful when there are unexpected social and sensory challenges involved. Allie Mason, autistic adventurer extraordinaire, is here to help. Join Allie as she introduces activities ranging from archery to stargazing, sailing to fossil hunting, snorkeling to nature-writing - and so much more. Each easily digestible factsheet comes with a short introduction, a summary of the sensory experiences involved, suggestions on approaching activities for when you're just getting started, as well as a handy budgeting system.
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March 21, 2023
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From the Dark into the Light: How I Came to See the Positive Side of Autism
A rare insight into the complexities faced by autistic people and a completely new perspective on some astonishing advantages of autism. ⯑ For autistic individuals, relatives and carers, teachers, friends, partners, employers or anyone else who is interested in learning about autism. ✅ Suitable for all ages & genders.
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March 15, 2023
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My So-Called Disorder: Autism, Exploding Trucks, and the Big Daddy of Rock and Roll
"Being identified as autistic at an advanced age is a revelation-an "aha!" moment of the first order. It's like being told, at sixty-five, ""But mon ami, you are French! You did not know?"" Suddenly, and for the very first time, the accent, the beret, the funny car, and your weirdly intense interest in Jerry Lewis all make sense."" Peter O'Neil had just such a "moment" after a forty year legal career, a second marriage, three kids, a granddaughter, seven unusually solitary years of college, and a lifetime of "special interests." O'Neil tells his story with humor and grace, and makes the case that autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people bring different ways of seeing and understanding to the workplace and are valuable and necessary to any human endeavor.
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March 20, 2023
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Differentiating Autism and PANS/PANDAS Including help with recognition and diagnosis: For parents and professionals
This book has been written by a 14 year-old autistic with PANS girl, assisted by her autistic with ADHD mum who is a Certified Naturopath. We hope that you will find the answers you seek and that it will help you. We are both proudly autistic. We wrote this book because we’ve seen that most people are confused about what autism is and what PANS/PANDAS are; what are the differences and similarities. Everyone, from doctors, teachers, therapists, psychologists, parents and the general population is confused about the conditions and do not understand fully where autism ends and where PANS/PANDAS begins. We have come across mistakes so often that we decided that we need to share our knowledge, insight and lived experience.
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March 29, 2023
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The Autistic Rules of Friendship: An Adult Autie's Field-Guide Towards Making Meaningful Connections
Friendship… that deeply natural and understandable human need to make worthwhile connections. However, it is too often one of the crucial areas which – by simple condition of their birth – those with autism can struggle. Yet, they are no less deserving. ‘The Autistic Rules of Friendship’ comes from the author of ‘The Rules of Being Autistic’ series – a collection of helpful guides specifically for an adult autistic audience, by a real-world autie! They are the seminal instruction books the world forgot to provide the modern spectrum-dweller!
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October 12, 2024
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The Co-Working Rules of Being Autistic: The Book Every Autistic Co-Worker Wants You to Read
With only around 20% of adults with autism in any sort of employment – and significantly less for those in paid, full-time employment – the contemporary workplace remains notably hostile terrain for your typical autie. With their unique skills, the autistic employee remains a vastly underutilised resource, both to the detriment of modern industry, as well as the autistic community.
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March 16, 2023
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One Who Thinks Differently: Poems and Essays on Autism
This is a collection of creative non-fiction. The stories and poems are written by a woman who was given a late diagnosis, at the age of 40, of Asperger's. These essays and poems describe what it was like for her both before and after realizing that she was on the Autism Spectrum and what ways she could best navigate a world in which she was different but nevertheless as valuable as any other being. The author hopes this collection will be positively affirming for others who have ASD or are otherwise neurodivergent. She also hopes this book will help members of the community and family members to better support people with Autism. The author was also diagnosed with PTSD, in no small part because of a failure to recognize that she had ASD and she hopes others will experience greater understanding and support with the aid of this book.
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February 25, 2023
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The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach
Adult autism assessment is a new and fast-growing clinical area, for which professionals often feel ill-equipped. Autistic adults are often misdiagnosed which has enormous implications for their mental health. This accessible and comprehensive adult autism assessment handbook covers the most up to date research and best practice around adult autism assessment, centering the person's internal experiences and sense-making in clinical assessment, rather than subjective observation, thus providing the clinician with a truly paradigm shifting Neuro-Affirmative approach to autism assessment. Traditional clinical assessment tools are comprehensively explored and unpacked to enable the clinician to have full confidence in aligning traditional criteria to the Autistic person's subjective experiences.
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February 21, 2023
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Seeing Two Worlds: A Journey Through Autism and Schizophrenia
Seeing Two Worlds: A Journey Through Autism and Schizophrenia"" is a deeply personal and insightful account of one individual's experiences living with not one, but two, of the most misunderstood and stigmatized mental health conditions: autism and schizophrenia. The author takes the reader on a journey through the ups and downs of their life, offering a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of navigating two worlds that often feel at odds with each other. Through a series of candid reflections, the author shares how they have learned to cope with the complexities of their conditions, including struggles with social communication and sensory processing, as well as delusions and hallucinations.
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February 17, 2023
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Mess is Progress: A Personal Chronicle of an Unmasking, Late Diagnosed, Autistic Woman
Strap in for a roller coaster of emotions from existential crises to humorous, relatable and general observational anecdotes of what it is to be a late diagnosed, Autistic woman. If like me, you are Autistic too (and/or ADHD) and currently gobbling up every ounce of information you can get your mitts on to satisfy your new special interest of being Neurodivergent, then you will have read many articles, books, memoirs, psychology based titles and so on. Let me introduce you to my own exploration of my recently discovered identity and through the “who even am I” stage that so commonly presents itself in the wake of the diagnosis reverberations. I’ve always found writing and poetry a form of therapy, celebration and communication, let’s face it as Autistics we aren’t best at verbalising our thoughts, emotions and needs, so finding an alternative form of communication for myself has been a relief and release, somewhat liberating.
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February 15, 2023
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