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"A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a Time Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the number of people diagnosed with it has skyrocketed--but so has the research that is transforming our understanding of the autistic brain. Now she brings her singular perspective to a thrilling journey...
Author
Publisher
Paul H. Brookes Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Description
This book, by a researcher who has been at the forefront of autism for a number of years, will draw together the theoretical and practical sides of the disorder, and will discuss, in plain and simple terms, the importance of diagnosis, intervention, and treatment. - Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Henry would like to find a friend at school, but for a boy on the autism spectrum, making friends can be difficult, as his efforts are sometimes misinterpreted, or things just go wrong--but Henry keeps trying, and in the end he finds a friend he can play with."--
Author
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A startling memoir that reveals what happens when autism and pain colide. It's a portrait of a nonverbal young man with autism names Billy who responds to his overwhelming medical issues with courage, grit and a stelely determination to communicate.Now grown, he has become an independent communicator, artist and yogi.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...
11) Water bound
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When he is rescued from a freezing black eddy by a beautiful woman named Rikki, Lev Prakenskii, who has no memory of who he is or why he possesses the instincts of a trained killer, fears for his life and the life of his savior.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Looking Ahead to the Future of Autism Study and Care. Autism and Tomorrow is a comprehensive resource that addresses many parents' questions pertaining to their child with autism, such as financial planning, long-term care, employment options, and employer relationships, community resources, education, bullying, puberty, doctor visits, sex, nutrition, fitness, family relationships, and more. Karen L. Simmons, the founder and CEO of Autism Today,...
15) Ginny Moon
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Description
Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager-she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit...different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language."--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
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