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Autism Studies Research Guide

Discover library research tools to help you find articles, books, and other resources related to autism

Fiction

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Mark Haddon
A Pebble to Polish / Janet Lord Leszl
Anything But Typical / Nora Raleigh Baskin
The Speed of Dark / Elizabeth Moon
House Rules: A Novel / Jodi Picoult
Running on Dreams / Herb Heiman
Little & Lion / Brandy Colbert
Wild Orchid / Beverley Brenna
Marcelo in the Real World / Francisco X. Stork
A Rock and a Hard Place / Anne Sutcliffe
Daniel Isn't Talking / Marti Leimbach
A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards: A Novel / Ann Bauer
Eye Contact: A Novel / Cammie McGovern
Some Kids Just Can't Sit Still! / Sam Goldstein
Holding Still for as Long as Possible / Zoe Whittall

Nonfiction

ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know / editors Mark L. Wolraich, MD, FAAP, Joseph F. Hagan Jr, MD, FAAP
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism / John Donvan & Caren Zucker
The Cambridge Handbook of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia / edited by Michael A. Skeide
Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety / edited and with an introduction by Naomi Arnold
Tourette Syndrome / edited by Davide Martino, James F. Leckman
Dyslexia in Higher Education: Anxiety and Coping Skills / Amanda T. Abbott-Jones
New Discoveries in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder / S Clare Stanford, Emma Sciberras, editors
Starving the Anxiety Gremlin: a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anxiety Management for Young People / Kate Collins-Donnelly
Maths Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia and Dyscalculia / Steve Chinn
ADHD, Stress, and Development / Petr Bob, Jana Konicarova
An Update on Anxiety Disorders: Etiological, Cognitive & Neuroscientific Aspects / Marwa Azab
Teaching Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: Lessons from Teaching and Science / Virginia W. Berninger and Beverly Wolf
Accidental Intolerance: How We Stigmatize ADHD and How We Can Stop / Susan C.C. Hawthorne
Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome / Dean Falk and Eve Penelope Schofield
Making Inclusion Work for Children with Dyspraxia: Practical Strategies for Teachers / Gill Dixon and Lois M. Addy
Dyslexia: A Very Short Introduction / Margaret J. Snowling
Fun Games and Activities for Children with Dyslexia: How to Learn Smarter with a Dyslexic Brain / Alais Winton; illustrated by Joe Salerno
Bipolar Disorder: From Neuroscience to Treatment / Allan H. Young, Mario F. Juruena, editors
Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults: A Practical Guide / by Thomas E. Brown
Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self / Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

Biographies & Memoirs

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism / by Naoki Higashida; translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's / John Elder Robison
A Regular Guy: Growing Up with Autism / Laura Shumaker
Succeeding with Autism: Hear My Voice / Judith H. Cohen; foreword by Temple Grandin
Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism / Temple Grandin; with a foreword by Oliver Sacks
There's a Boy in Here / Judy Barron and Sean Barron
Walker Finds a Way: Running into the Adult World with Autism / Robert Hughes
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism / Dawn Prince-Hughes
Not Just Anything: A Collection of Thoughts on Paper / Donna Williams
In My Mind: From His Life with Autism, Alex Answers All Your Questions / Alex Olinkiewicz; In Collaboration with Richard O'Connell, EdD.
Asperger Syndrome, the Universe and Everything / Kenneth Hall; forewords by Ken P. Kerr and Gill Rowley
Brains, Trains & Video Games: Living the Autism Life / Alicia Hart
Emergence: Labeled Autistic: A True Story / Temple Grandin and Margaret M. Scariano
Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism / Clara Claiborne Park; foreword by Oliver Sacks
Uncomfortable Labels: My Life As a Gay Autistic Trans Woman / Laura Kate Dale
Bittersweet on the Autism Spectrum / edited by Luke Beardon, PhD and Dean Worton
Pretending to be Normal : Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) / Liane Holliday Willey ; foreword by Tony Attwood
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