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This guide will help families develop a life plan and a letter of intent for their family member who has a disability.  These can be shared with others to provide crucial insight into the dreams, aspirations, and support needs of the individual...

ISBN 978-1400082155This is an elegant and thought-provoking memoir.  In the author's words, "This is a book about autism [and] how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it."  More than a story of autism, Songs of the Gorilla...

ISBN 0-7382-0666-0   From Publishers WeeklyFormer Atlantic Monthly staffer Stacey makes her debut with a sharply observed, deeply personal account of her son Walker's metamorphosis from a worryingly unresponsive infant to an intelligent, normally...

The difficulties experienced by children with autism and related conditions in inferring the thoughts, beliefs, desires and intentions of others are will documented in numberous studies.  Drawing on their own intervention program, and providing...

Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking- and anwering- profound questions: How is it that we know what we know?  How is it that our conscious...

On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care.  Their stories illustrate the need for providing youth in foster...

Shapiro, social policies writer for U.S. News & World Report , centers his empathetic review of our society's relations to its disabled population on the 1992 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He documents the political progress of the...

Judith Bluestone, who herself triumphed over the challenges of autism, understands the reality faced by individuals on the autism spectrum and by their families.  From her work as an advocate, teacher, therapist, and lecturer, she created the...

ISBN 0764525476   This book provides help-and hope-by explaining the differences between various types of autism and delivering the lowdown on behavioral, educational, medical, other interventions. Featuring inspiring autism success stories as well...

 Targeting Autism reaches out to everyone who lives with or cares about a young child with autism. First published in 1998 and updated in 2002, author Shirley Cohen has recast this best seller throughout to chart the dynamics of the autism world in...

ISBN 978-1843102281Not Just Anything is a mosaic of logic, passion and philosophical musings by Donna Williams, sometimes jolting, sometimes moving, often illuminating. In it Donna takes you on a poetic adventure into places past, present and beyond...