Lending Library
Books: Member Recommendations
Articles: Member Recommendations

Lending Library

Materials can be borrowed for up to one month and must be signed out with name, phone number and email(if you have one). Donations to the lending library would be gratefully accepted.
1. Agassi, Martine. Hands Are Not For Hitting. Free Spirit Publishing.
2. Attwood, Tony. Asperger's Syndrome: A Video Guide for Parents and Professionals. Future Horizons Inc.
3. Berry, Joy. Living Skills: Every Kid's Guide to Decision Making and Problem Solving. Childrens Press.
4. Berry, Joy. Living Skills: Every Kid's Guide to Family Rules and Responsibilities. Children's Press.
5. Berry, Joy. Living Skills: Every Kid's Guide to Nutrition and Health Care. Children's Press.
6. Faherty, Catherine. What Does it Mean to Me?: A workbook for explaining self awareness and life lessons to the child with High Functioning Autism or Asperger's. Future Horizons, Inc.
7. Goldstein and McGinnis, Skillstreaming the Adolescent: New Strategies and Perspectives for Teaching Pro-Social Skills Text and Student Manual. Research Press.
8. Gutstein and Sheely. Relationship Development Intervention with Children, Adolescents and Adults. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
9. Lears, Laurie. Ian's Walk. Albert Whitman & Company.
10. McAfee, Jeanette, M.D. with foreword by Tony Attwood. Navigating the Social World: A Curriculum for Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome, High Functioning Autism and Related Disorders. Future Horizons Inc.
11. Meyer, Roger N. Asperger's Syndrome Employment Workbook. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
12. Shriver, Maria. What's Wrong With Timmy? Warner Books and Little, Brown, and Company.
13. Thompson, Mary. Andy and His Yellow Frisbee. Woodbine House.
14. Walker et al. The Walker Social Skills Curriculum: The Access Program Workbook and Study Guide. Pro-ed.

Books: Member Recommendations

Nonfiction
1. Pyles, Lise. Hitchhiking Through Asperger Syndrome.
   Number of recommendations: 1
   Describes the behavior and lifestyle issues of her AS son from preschool through age 17. He has made tremendous progress over the years. She offers lots of advice on coping techniques, dietary factors, dealing with school challenges, homeschooling, medication, etc. Besides being a source of practical advice, the book is encouraging and inspiring. Also, her writing style is a pleasure to read!


2. Turecki, Stanley, M.D. with Leslie Tonner. The Difficult Child
   Number of recommendations: 1
   Not specifically about AS, but talks about children with higher than average parenting difficulty. Enumerates several difficulty areas (with a rating scale) and gives techniques for coping with and possibly reducing them. I found this book very helpful in dealing with my child when she was younger and particularly difficult to manage.

Fiction
1. Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
   Number of recommendations: 1
   This story is intended to appear to have been written by a 15-year-old boy with Autism (the author does not have Autism, but had worked with autistic children in the past). One of his characteristics is that he is a math whiz and loves prime numbers. So, of course, the chapters are numbered by primes! I enjoyed the book because "his" unique perspective was charming (plus there are a lot of mathematical references which I also enjoyed). On the other hand, if you're looking for something uplifting this may not be the book for you. There are some serious family problems in the story which make it a bit of a downer.
   

Articles: Member Recommendations

1. Cowley, Geoffrey. "Girls, Boys, and Autism". Newsweek. 4 Sept. 2003.
   http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3069769/
   Newsweek's Sept 4th on-line magazine has an article which explores the significance of gender and two different kinds of intelligences "empathizing" and "systemizing" and the autistic individual's development and use of these two intelligences. Newsweek's medical editor Geoffrey Crowley cites Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen's recent paper, which proposes that the autistic spectrum represents an extreme variant of normal behavior in which there is an imbalance between these two intelligences. Newsweek offers a good review of Baron-Cohen's findings, but is uneven in exploring how this model applies to more severely affected people with autism, or girls with autistic spectrum disorders. Overall, it is an interesting and thought-provoking article and the site provides links to several other articles on autism and Asperger's syndrome.