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• A is for Autism, F is for Friend: A Kid's Book for Making Friends With A Child Who Has Autism
  Joanna Keating-Velasco
   
• All About My Brother
  Sarah Peralta
   
• Amazingly Alphie!: Understanding and Accepting Different Ways of Being
  Roz Espin and Beverley Ransom
   
• Andy and his Yellow Frisbee
  Mary Thompson
   
• Arnie and His School Tools: Simple Sensory Solutions That Build Success
  Jennifer Veenendall
    
• The Autism Acceptance Book: Being a Friend to Someone with Autism
  Ellen Sabin
   
• Cooking Program for Kids on the Spectrum
  Hosted by: MyWire.com
  Multimedia publication created for parents and educators of children with autism. Let’s Cook! Life Skills for Kids on the Autism Spectrum combines video, slides and downloadable visual aids in an entertaining and informative digital format that demonstrates how to help kids with autism learn an important life skill – cooking. It features structured, predictable activities that help support children on the spectrum to engage and communicate in a natural social situation.
   
• Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heros
  Jennifer Elder and Marc Thomas
   
• Everybody Is Different: A Book for Young People Who Have Brothers or Sisters with Autism
  Fiona Bleach
   
• The Friendship Puzzle: Helping Kids Learn About Accepting and Including Kids with Autism
  Julie L. Coe, Sondra L. Brassel, Jennifer Maloni and Rebecca Landa
   
• I Am Utterly Unique: Celebrating the Strengths of Children with Asperger's Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism
  Vivian Strand
   
• Ian's Walk: A Story About Autism
  Laurie Lears and Karen Ritz
   
• Joey and Sam: A Heartwarming Storybook About Autism, A Family, and A Brother's Love
  Illana Katz, Edward, M.D. Ritvo, and Franz Borowitz
   
• Keisha's Doors: An Autism Story
  Marvie Ellis
   
• The Kid-Friendly ADHD and Autism Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to the Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet
  Pamela Compart and Dana Laake
   
• Kristy and the Secret of Susan (Baby Sitters Club)
  Ann Martin
   
• Max from the Planet of Cool
  McNall and Max
   
• My Best Friend Will
  Jamie Lowell and Tara Tuchel
   
• My Book Full of Feelings: How to Control and React to the Size of Your Emotions
  Amy V. Jaffe and Luci Gardner
   
• My Friend with Autism: A Coloring Book for Peers and Siblings
  Beverly Bishop and Craig Bishop
   
• My PECS School To Home Communicator
  Laura T. Behrendt
   
• The New Social Story Book - Illustrated Edition
  Carol Gray
   
• Oliver Onion: The Onion Who Learns to Accept and Be Himself
  Diane Murrell
   
• Personal hygiene? What's that got to do with me?
  Pat Crissey
   
• Play Free
  McNall and Max
  
• Rules
  Cynthia Lond
   
• Russel is Extra Special
  Charles Amenta
  
   
• Sensory Smarts: A Book for Kids with ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorders Struggling with Sensory Integration Problems
  Kathleen A. Chana, Paul J. Chana, Christian P. Chana, Joel M. Berns
   
• Since We're Friends: An Autism Picture Book
  Celeste Shally and David Harrington
   
• The Social Skills Picture Book: Teaching Play, Emotion, and Communication to Children with Autism
  Jed Baker
   
• Some Kids Have Autism
  Martha E.H. Rustad
   
• Sometimes My Brother: Helping Kids Understand Autism Through A Sibling's Eyes
  Angie Healy
   
• Special People, Special Ways
  Arlene Maguire
   
• StoryCorps
  In early 2006, 12-year-old Joshua Littman, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, interviewed his mother, Sarah, at StoryCorps. Their one-of-a-kind conversation covered everything from cockroaches to Sarah’s feelings about Joshua as a son is shown in this online video.
   
• Taking Autism to School
  Andreanna Edwards and Tom Dineen
   
• Taking Care of Myself: A Healthy, Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism
  Mary Wrobel
   
• Talking to Angels
  Esther Watson
   
• Thank You Sammy
  Brian R. King, LCSW
   
• That's What's Different About Me: Story and Coloring Book
  Heather McCracken and Kathryn Robbins
   
• This is Asperger's Syndrome
  Elisa Ganon and Brenda Smith-Myles
   
• To the Moon Billy June
  McNall and Max
   
• Tobin Learns to Make Friends
  Diane Murrell
   
• Trevor Trevor
  Cullen Trachtman and Diane and Deidre Sassano
   
• Understanding Brothers and Sisters on the Autism Spectrum (DVD)
  Starring: Jessie Coulter, Drew Coulter Director: Dan Coulter
   
• When My Autism Gets Too Big! A Relaxation Book for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Kari Dunn Buron and Brenda Smith Myles
  
  

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