Kids Reading Autism

Today's post again takes advantage of the blog title's double meaning.
These books try to explain autism to children and may be useful
to give to peers or even to your child with autism. The first
three titles come courtesy of Dr. Brigham at the Vanderbilt
Kennedy center from their resource list.


The other stuff? Amazon.  The images at top are what
you get if you type in "Autism Rocks" but you can 
click on them if you want to buy the album or the
rock around (which looks like a lot of fun)
Full disclosure: if you do click on them and
buy them and if I ever get my account set up,
they might give me 25 cents or so if I buy something
at Amazon. Actually if you already have either of
these, or get them, email me what you think and
I'll post your review.


I know, neither of them are books. But hey, it's
my blog. And I want to know if kids like that 
rock around and what that album sounds like
and my son's too old for the one, and I'm 
far too cheap and lazy and cautious to get
the other.


Wow. My longest digression yet.


Shall we return to the books? We shall.


I know none of these, but if they're
good enough for Vanderbilt .  .  .





Amenta III, C. A. (1992). Russell is extra special. New York: Magination Press.

http://apamaginationpress.apa.org/  

Bishop, B. (2003). My friend with autism. Arlington, TX: Future Horizons, Inc., Inc.   

Katz, I., & Ritvo, E. (1993). Joey and Sam. Los Angeles, CA: Real Life Storybooks. 
(no picture available for Joey and Sam)


Amazon offers these other options too.






I love the "Being a Friend to Someone with Autism"
Has someone written "Being Someone with Autism
and a friend"?  Shout out to all you writers with
autism - which is not me, though I remain your
friend and
Spectrum Mom