Autism books
Hi! I've created this guide to help people looking for great books on autism and/or Asperger's Syndrome. This is only a short list of some of the great books out there, that I originally created for a college assignment. (That's why they're written in a bibliographic notation style
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I have Asperger's Syndrome myself. I wanted a list of books that were positive, informative, and focussed mainly on personal accounts. You can read all the textbooks and parental accounts in the world and still not really understand what it's like to be autistic because you're not seeing it from the inside.
I highly recommend from the autobiographical section Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day, Luke Jackson's Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome and Lucy Blackman's Lucy's Story: Autism and other adventures.
Lucy's Story in particular is interesting, because she is non-verbal. She's a genuine case of Facilitated Communication. She started out typing with assistance, now she has a synthesised "speaking" computer, similar to those used by people like Stephen Hawking and others with cerebral palsy.
Though there's been a lot of controversy about those with autism and FC in recent years, people seem to forget that it was originally developed to be used with people with CP, where it's considered the norm, now. People wouldn't look twice at someone with cerebral palsy using a computer or a picture/alphabet board to communicate.
And PECS, which is used successfully with a lot of non or minimally verbal autistic kids is based on Rosemary Crossley's work.
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