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
Out and About: Preparing Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Participate in Their Communities
Go out and about with ease! Out and About: Preparing Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders to Participate in their Communities is a short, to-the-point resource that is sure be used repeatedly by parents and educators. It focuses on everyday events and how to support individuals on the autism spectrum to be active participants in the world around them. Created as a blueprint to be filled in according the child's strengths and needs and the event being planned, the framework lists ten areas that have been identified in best practice as effective supports for children with an autism spectrum disorder. These include a waiting plan, communication supports, social intervention, visual need, hidden curriculums, rules, sensory support, motivation, behavior supports, transitions tools, and considerations for siblings or other students.
Jill Hudson & Amy Bixler Coffin
Kindle
Paperback
July 2, 2007
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The Autism Diagnosis Workbook: A guide to navigating the Autism diagnosis process as an adult
The Autism Diagnosis Workbook is an interactive guide for navigating the diagnostic process. It is a simplified yet comprehensive guide to the diagnostic process with an interactive guide to building evidence.
Victoria Ellen Whiting & Liam Whiting
Paperback
December 14, 2022
Paid for Paperback
English
Parenting Rewired: How to Raise a Happy Autistic Child in a Very Neurotypical World
Parenting an autistic child as a neurotypical adult can be challenging but it doesn't need to feel impossible! This essential guide will help you reshape your approaches to parenting. Packed with lived-experience insight and easy-to-follow advice this transformative guide will change how you view the behaviour of your autistic child and challenge you to rewire your thinking to see the world through the autistic lens. This guide challenges the common misunderstandings surrounding autistic behaviour, such as emotional dysregulation in public settings or meltdowns at mealtimes. Parents and carers will be given a deeper understanding of why your child behaves the way they do and how a change in your parenting approach is key to relax and resolve difficult situations. This book gives you all the tools you need to not only parent your autistic child, but also to understand them.
Danielle Punter & Charlotte Chaney
Kindle
Paperback
August 18, 2022
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
The Autistic Postgraduate Woman: Navigating the Neurotypical University
Despite strong numbers of autistic students attending higher education, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) drives within academia to increase the number of disabled graduates undertaking further study, autistic postgraduate students are defined as having poorer outcomes than autistic people without degrees. This book will consider the ‘ unseen’ challenges autistic women in postgraduate education may experience, with the aim to raise awareness and help to reduce this discrepancy. Combining a holistic view of up-to-date literature with personal experience, the author will discuss some of the stereotypical beliefs that surround autism, highlighting stigma but also dispelling misconceptions, and will explore how these experiences may be transferrable to other disabled and minority students.
A Different Kind of Parenting: Neurodivergent families finding a way through together
"Our story is a story that's happening right now, to other families in systems around the world. To those families, I want to say: I see you, and I want shine a light on your experiences so you know you are not alone." In this heart-warming and supportive new book, The Sunday Times bestselling author and illustrator Eliza Fricker lifts parents of neurodivergent kids from the dark days of grappling with impenetrable, underfunded systems, and shows them how life can become brighter - often by finding joy in the things that may seem small to everyone else but are huge milestones for our children.
Kindle
Paperback
October 21, 2024
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
Wild of Brain: An extraordinary life, two diagnoses, clues for the neuro-curious, hope for the struggling
Funny, honest and startling at times, this is a rollick through the extraordinary life of a late diagnosed autistic ADHDer. A hybrid of maverick memoir, lived experience insights and shudder, self help. Wild of Brain offers hope, hacks and resources for the neuro-curious, neurodivergent folks and the professionals & loved ones walking alongside them.
The Unmasking Workbook for Autistic Adults: Neurodiversity Affirming Skills to Help You Live Authentically, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive
Let this workbook guide you toward your authentic, autistic self. You don’t have to hide anymore. If you grew up before the neurodiversity movement, chances are you were taught at an early age that your autistic traits were “wrong” or “bad.” Whether it was stimming, difficulties with making small talk, avoiding eye contact, sensitivities to loud sounds or certain textures, or even talking passionately about the things you care about—somewhere along the way you learned to mask these aspects of yourself to better fit in, avoid bullying from other kids, and in some cases to even gain the love of your own parents. The problem is that, over time, masking can lead to higher levels of stress, burnout, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and depression. So how can you be your authentic self and still succeed and thrive in a neurotypical world?
Kindle
Paperback
October 1, 2024
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English
A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
One woman's decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she'd spent decades hiding her tics and shutting down in public, wondering why she couldn't just act like everyone else. Therapists told her she had Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, social anxiety, and recurrent depression. They prescribed breathing techniques and gratitude journaling. Nothing helped.
The Importance of Autistic Leadership: From Complexity to Clarity
This book focuses on Autistic leadership and the Autistic experience as such. Svanhildur Svavarsdottir is a well known specialist in Autism and Ingibjorg Alfros is autistic and was diagnosed at the age of 44. This book presents a new view on autism. It is ideal both for parents, relatives and for Autistic people themselves.
Svanhildur Svavarsdottir & Ingibjorg Bjornsdottir
Kindle
September 18, 2024
Paid for Kindle
English
The Making of the Mask: Autistic Masking
I've spent my entire life wondering why I was so different to everyone around me. Why I struggled with so much that others took in their stride. Adulthood was a real shock to the system. I spent my childhood with my head in a book, searching for characters that I could possibly relate to, but when all the ""normal"" people are fictional, where does that leave me? I never found success with my search for myself, but maybe you will. Maybe this time, you'll see yourself in my story. Only this time, it's real...
Kindle
Paperback
September 14, 2024
Paid for Kindle
Paid for Paperback
English