We have an extensive library of books, leaflets and DVDs to borrow. The library is always available for loans and returns at our branch meetings and at other times by contacting Catherine Hall on 246025 or by email
Books held in our library are listed below. New additions are always being made, so if there is a specific book you are looking for which is not listed please contact us to see if we have it.
Title |
Author |
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GENERAL AUTISM |
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| Approaches to Autism | The National Autistic Society |
| What's So Special About Autism? | Lorna Wing |
| Autism with Severe Learning Difficulties | Rita Jordan |
| A positive approach to autism |
Stella Waterhouse |
| Autism and play | Jannik Beyer & Lone Gammeltoft |
| National Autism Plan for Children (NAPC) | The National Autistic Society |
| **NEW** Volces from the Spectrum: Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, People with Autism and Professionals share their wisdom |
Cindy Ariel & Robert Naseef |
| **NEW** The Passionate Mind: How People with Autism Learn | Wendy Lawson & Lisa Simone |
| GENERAL ASPERGERS SYNDROME |
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| The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome | Tony Attwood |
| Asperger Syndrome: an Overview | Stephan Ehiers and Christopher Gillberg |
| Understanding and working with the Spectrum of Autism |
Wendy Lawson |
| Asperger's and Girls | Tony Attwood |
| Martian in the Playground: Understanding the Schoolchild with Asperger's Syndrome | Claire Sainsbury |
| **NEW** All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome |
Kathy Hoopmann |
| PARENTING |
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| Caring for a Child with autism | Martine Ives and Neil Munrow |
| Autism: How to help your young child | Leicestershire County Council and Fosse Health Trust |
| Facing Autism |
Lynn Hamilton |
| Special Educational Needs: A guide for parents of children with ASDs | The National Autistic Society |
| How to Help Your Autistic Spectrum Child: Practical Ways to Make Family Life Run More Smoothly | Jackie Brealy |
| Playing, Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Practical Resource of Play Ideas for Parents and Carers | Julia Moor |
| Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum: What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-teen and Teenage Years | Shana Nichols |
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Quirky, Yes - Hopeless, No: Practical Tips to Help Your Child with Asperger's Syndrome be More Socially Accepted |
Cynthia Le Brie Norall |
| **NEW** Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism or other Developmental Issues |
Maria Wheeler |
| **NEW** Aspergers Sydrome in Pink: Raising (or being!) a Girl with Asperger's Syndrome |
Rudy Simone & Judy Clark |
| CHILDREN WITH ASD | |
| Tobin Learns to Make Friends | Diane Murell |
| Friends Learn about Tobin | Diane Murell |
| I am Utterly Unique: Celebrating the Strengths of Children with Asperger Syndrome and High-functioning Autism | Elaine Marie Larson, Vivian Strand |
| My Book Full of Feelings: How to Control and React to the Size of Your Emotions | Amy V. Jaffe, Luci Gardner |
| When My Worries Get Too Big!: A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with Anxiety | Kari Dunn Buron |
| **NEW** How to Make Friends : A Guide to making friends and keeping them (A Dino Life Guides Book) |
Laurene Krasny Brown & Marc Brown |
| **NEW** Why Wash? Learning About Personal Hygiene | Claire Llewendyn & Mike Gordon |
| **NEW** I have feelings | Bobbie Kalman |
| EXPLAINING AUTISM TO SIBLINGS/FRIENDS/CLASSMATES | |
| My Special Brother Rory | Ellie Fairfoot aged 6 1/2 and Jenny Mayne (Ellie's mum) |
| My brother is different: a book for young children who have a brother with autism | Louise Gorrod |
| My Sister is Different | Sarah Tamsin Hunter |
| Everybody is Different: a book for young people who have a brother or sister with autism | Fiona Bleach |
| I really don't know why? A Siblings song to autism |
The National Autistic Society |
| A Book about what Autism can be like |
Sue Adams |
| Can I tell you about Asperger Sydrome? A guide for family and friends |
Jude Welton |
| My Family is Different: a workbook for children with a brother or sister who has autism or Asperger Syndrome | Carolyn Brock |
| *NEW** I'm a Teenager GEt me Out of Here! A Survival Guide for the Teenage Siblings of Young People with Autism |
Carolyn Brock and Jess Abbo |
| **NEW** Brotherly Feelings: Me, My Emotions and My Brother with Asperger's Syndrome | Sam Frender, Robin Schiffmiller & Dennis Dittrich |
| **NEW** Understanding Sam (and Aspergers Syndrome) | Clarabelle van Niekerk |
| **NEW** Siblings: The Autism Spectrum Through Our Eyes | Jane Johnson & Anne Van Rensselaer |
| ADULTS AND ADOLESCENTS WITH AUTISM AND ASPERGERS | |
| Aspects of Asperger's:Success in the teens and twenties | Maude Brown and Alex Miller |
| Adolescents on the autism spectrum | Chantal Sicile-Kira |
| Survival Strategies for pepole on the autism spectrum | Marc Fleisher |
| Sex, sexuality and the Autism Spectrum | Wendy Lawson |
| What is Asperger syndrome and how will it affect me? A guide for young people |
NAS helpline |
| An Aspergers Life- Living with Aspergers Syndrome |
Liverpool Asperger Team |
| Independant Living for adults with autism and Asperger Syndrome |
The National Autistic Society |
| Making Sense of Sex: A Forthright Guide to Puberty, Sex and Relationships for People with Asperger's Syndrome | Sarah Attwood and Jonathon Powell |
| Taking Care of Myself: A Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism | Mary Wrobel |
| The Guide to Dating for Teenagers with Asperger Syndrome | Jennifer Unlenkamp |
| Getting to Grips with Asperger Syndrome: Understanding Adults on the Autism Spectrum | Carol Hagland |
| An Asperger Marriage | Gisela Slater-Walker, Chris Slater-Walker |
| Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence | Luke Jackson |
| Succeeding in College with Asperger Syndrome: A student guide | Maria Lawlor |
| How Joshua Learned - making sense of the world with autism |
Joahua Love |
| I have autism - whats that? | Kate Doherty, Paddy McNally and Eileen Sherrard |
| *NEW* Glass Half Empty, Glass Half Full: How Aspergers Syndrome changed my Life |
Chris Mitchell |
| **NEW** Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety:A Guide to Successful Stress Management | Nick Dublin |
| **NEW** The Aspie Teen Survival Guide: Teen to Teen Advice from a Young Man with Asperger's Syndrome | J.D. Kraus |
| **NEW** Aspergers Sydrome in Pink: Raising (or being!) a Girl with Asperger's Syndrome | Rudy Simone & Judy Clark |
| **NEW** Top Tips for Asperger Students: How to get the most out of university and college | Rosemary Martin & Caitlin Cooper |
| **NEW** Body Language and Communication: A Guide for people with autism spectrum disorders | NAS |
| BEHAVIOUR | |
| Understanding Behaviour | Fiona May, Autism Helpline |
| People with autism behaving badly: helping people with ASD move on from behavioural and emotional challenges | John Clements |
| Challenging behaviour and autism:making sense - making progress | Philip Whitaker |
| It can get better....dealing with common behaviour problems in young autistic children | Paul Dickinson and Liz Hannah |
| The Incredible 5 Point Scale |
Kari Dunn Buron & Mitzi Curtis |
| My Social Stories Book |
Carol Gray |
| Revealing the Hidden Social Code: Social Stories' for People with Autistic Spectrum Disorders | Carol Gray |
| Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome | John Smith |
| People with Autism Behaving Badly: Helping People with ASD Move on from Behavioral and Emotional Challenges | John Clements |
| Writing and Developing Social Stories: Practical Interventions In Autism | Caroline Smith |
| Why does Chris do that? Some suggestions regarding the cause and management of the unusual behaviour of children and adults with autism and Asperger Syndrome |
Tony Attwood |
| The New Social Stories Book (with CD-Rom) |
Carol Gray |
| **NEW** Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments:Pracitical Solutions for Tantrums, Rage and Meltdowns |
Brenda Smith Myles & Jack Southwick |
| **NEW** I Can't Do That! My Social Stories to Help with Communication, Self-Care and Personal Skills | John Ling |
| **NEW** Organise your ADD/ADHD Child : A Practical Guide for Parents | Cheryl R Carter |
| EDUCATION | |
| Play with Me:including children with autism in mainstream primary schools | Isabel Cottinelli Telmo |
| My friend Sam:introducing a child with autism to a nursery school | Liz Hannah |
| How to make school make sense: a parents guide to helping the child with Asperger Syndrome | Clare Lawrence |
| Developing pupils' social communication skills:a practical guide | Barratt et al |
| Teaching young children with autism to mind read - a practical guide | Particia Howlin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Julie Hadwin |
| Autistic spectrum disorders in young children: a guide for early years practitioners |
The National Autistic Society |
| Teaching young children with autistic spectrum disorders to learn : a practical guide for parents and staff in mainstreams nurseries and schools | Liz Hannah and The National Autistic Society |
| Guidelines for working with children with autistic spectrum disorders in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 | The National Autistic Society and South Gloucestershire Council |
| Bullying and autism spectrum disorders:A guide for school staff |
Alice Stobart and the NAS |
| **NEW** Smart but Scattered |
Richard Guare |
| SENSORY | |
| Practical Sensory Programmes for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Special Needs | Sue Larkley |
| 101 Games and Activities for Children With Autism, Aspergers and Sensory Processing Disorders | Tara Delaney |
| Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism: Different Sensory Experiences - Different Perceptual Worlds | Wendy Lawson and Olga Bogdashina |
| **NEW** Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder: A Family Guide to Understanding and Supporting your senory senstive child |
Christopher Auer & uan Blumberg |
| **NEW** Starting Sensory Integration Therapy - Fun Activites that won't destroy your home | Bonnie Arnwine |
| **NEW** Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping your child with Sensory Pricessing Difficulties | Lindsay Biel |
| **NEW** Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration: Forms, Checklists and Practical Tools for Parents and Teachers | Carol Kranowitz et al |
| **NEW** Too Loud Too Bright Too Fast Too Tight: What to do if you are sensory defensive in a overstimulating world | Sharon Helter |
| **NEW** Early Sensory Skills | Jackie Cooke |
| **NEW** Sensory Motor Activites for Early Development | Chia Swee Hong et al |
| MOTOR SKILLS | |
| **NEW** Fine Motor Skills : Practicable Photocopiable Activities to improve motor control | Mark Hill et al |
| **NEW** Little Book of Scissor Skills | Sharon Drew |
| **NEW** Little Book of Fine Motor Skills | Sally Featherstone |
| **NEW** Preschool Basics: Scissor Activities and Fine Motor Skills | Scholastic Publishing |
| **NEW** Activities for Gross Motor Skills Development | Jodene Smith |
| **NEW** Activities for Fine Motor Skills Development | Jodene Smith |
| COMMUNICATION | |
| Communication issues in autism and Asperger Syndrome : Do we speak the same language? | Olga Bogdashina |
| What did you say? What do you mean? An illustrated guide to understanding metaphors |
Jude Welton |
| Everyday Education: Visual Support for Children with Autism | Lennart Pedersen |
| The One and Only Sam: A Story Explaining Idioms for Children with Asperger Syndrome and Other Communication Difficulties | Aileen Stalker, Bob Spencer |
| EMPLOYMENT | |
| The undiscovered workforce:employing people with Asperger Syndrom: a practical guide | NAS Prospects Supported Employment Team |
| Asperger Syndrome and Employment | Genevieve Edmonds and Luke Beardon |
| How to find work that works for people with Asperger Syndrome: The ultimate guide for getting people with Asperger Syndrome into the workplace (and keeping them there) | Gail Hawkins |
| Employing People with Asperger Syndrome - a practical guide |
The National Autistic Society |
| DIET | |
| Special Diets for special kids | Lisa Lewis |
| Diet Intervention and Autism | Marilyn Le Breton |
| The Aia gluten and dairy free cookbook | Marilyn Le Breton |
| A user guide to the GF/CF diet for autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD | Luke Jackson |
| BIOMEDICAL | |
| Changing the course of autism - a scientific approach for parents and physicians | Bryan Jepson |
| AUTOBIOGRPAHICAL ACCOUNTS | |
| The way I see it | Temple Grandin |
| Thinking in Pictures | Temple Grandin |
| Somebody Somewhere | Donna Williams |
| Pretending to be Normal:Living with Asperger's Syndrome | Lianne Holliday Willey |
| Managing with Asperger's Syndrome | Malcom Johnson |
| Through the eyes of aliens | Jasmine Lee O'Neill |
| NOVELS | |
| The curious incident of the dog in the night time | Mark Haddon |
| Baj and the Word Launcher |
Pamela Victor |
| DVDs | |
| A Different Life - Rosie's Story | |
| Snow Cake | |
| Transporters | |
| Adam | |
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We also hold many leaflets and booklets published by the National Autistic Society including:
What is autism? What is Asperger syndrome? Autistic spectrum disorders in young children: a guide for early years practitioners Going to the shops: a guide for parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders Going to the hairdressers: a guide for parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders Going to the doctors: a guide for parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders Going to the dentist: a guide for parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders Moving House: a guide for parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders Classroom and playground support for children with autistic spectrum disorders Working with an Asperger pupil in secondary schools Bullying and how to deal with it: a guide for pupils with autistic spectrum disorders Going on trips with an Asperger pupil Exam advice for young people with autism and Asperger syndrome: guidelines for examiners, teachers, parents and pupils Supporting pupils with Asperger syndrome in higher education The sensory world of the autistic spectrum: a greater understanding Mental health in people with autism and Asperger syndrome: a guide for health professionals Diagnosis: a brief guide for health professionals Information cards on autism and Asperger syndrome for young people
We have suitable informative and awareness raising materials about autism and Asperger syndrome suitable for display in public or work places. For more information contact us
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