Inspiration:
Letters to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life by Daniel Gottlieb
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
Autism Information:
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
What I Wish I’d Known About Raising a Child with Autism by Bobbi Sheahan and Kathy DeOrnellas, PH.D
Early Intervention Games by Barbara Sher
The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s by Temple Grandin
Motivate to Communicate: 300 Games and Activities for Your Child with Autism
Autism Education and Awareness
In His Shoes: A Short Journey Through Autism by Joanna L. Keating-Velasco
Fiction:
(Children’s) Nobody’s Perfect by Marlee Matlin and Doug Cooney
(YA) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
(YA) Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
(YA) Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
(YA) Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
(YA) Rules by Cynthia Lord
A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards by Ann Bauer
Wish by Melina Gerosa Bellows
Dark Eye by William Bernhardt
For Whom the Minivan Rolls by Jeffrey Cohen
Daniel Isn’t Talking by Marti Leimbach
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
11,794 total views, 33 views today
I recommend some books also:
Changing the course of Autism, by Dr Brian Jepson.
Healing and recovering Autism, by Jenny Mc Carthy and Dr Jerry Kartinzel.
Gut and Psychology syndrome by Dr Natasha Campbell Mc Bride.
Improving the quality of life for children on the Autistic spectrum by Jon and Polly Tommey.
XXX
I would like to also recommend Dr. Bock’s Healing the Childhood Epidemics.
My very favorite is Engaging Autism by Stanley Greenspan. Also known as the Floortime book.
Saw your blog featured and stopped by. I review a lot of PB, MG and YA books on autism, some you’ve mentioned. There is Canadian YA author you may way to check out, Beverley Brenna. She’s written a series about an 18-year-old girl in the autism spectrum transitioning into adulthood: Wild Orchid, Waiting for No One, and White Bicycle (not released yet).
Peter Reynolds has written a wonderful PB, “I’m Here,” that is about an autistic child, but could be any shy child.
And, I found Tom Fields-Meyer’s “Following Ezra” 2011, the best book written for parents. For years he tried to “fix his son, until one day he realized that it was important to love, accept and follow his son because he had a lot to learn from Ezra.
Enjoyed your blog.
Patricia
Thanks for the great suggestions. I’ll add them to the list for now and try to catch up on my reading to do a review.
The Out of Sync Child is helpful, there is also a companion book with it, I think it is called the out of sync child has fun (or at play or plays)
I Love it that you have these books listed. Its my little reminder to read them. I loved The Way I see it by Temple Grandin. I read the book in a day, I couldn’t put it down. It just explanined so much about my son, who doesn’t talk, that I never knew!