Autism

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Book List

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   Biklen, Douglas. (1993). Communication unbound/. Teacher's College Press. Facilitated communication claims that this technique can open a world of communication to autistic children. The book shares this and the controversy surrounding the method.

     Grandin, Temple, & Scariano, Margaret M. (1986). Emergence: Labeled autistic/. Novato, CA: Arena Press. The first author was diagnosed with autism. She tells the story of her emergence and her adjustments to the nonautistic world.

     Grandin, Temple. (1996). Thinking in pictures: And other reports of my life with autism/. New York: Vintage Press. The author complements her earlier book (with M. M. Scariano) with her encounters with the world. She offers rare insights into the cognitive experiences of a person with autism.

     Hart, Charles. (1989). Without reason: A family copes with two generations of autism./ New York: Harper & Row. Both the author's older brother and son were diagnosed with autism.

     Kaufman, Barry. (1976). Son-rise/. New York: Harper & Row. A father's journal of an autistic boy, Raun, and the family's attempts to break through his isolation. A look at a detailed method is central to the book.

     Martin, Russell. (1994). Out of silence/. New York: Henry Holt & Co. The author's nephew, Ian, became autistic after a reaction to a routine vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT). The book is a scholarly account of autism and explores the essence of language learning--the child's attempt to cope with the objective world.

     Park, Clara Claiborne. (1982). The siege: The first eight years of an autistic child/ (2nd. ed). Boston: Little, Brown. A mother's personal account of the first eight years of her daughter's life.

     Williams, Donna. (1992). Nobody nowhere. New York: Avon Books. This book takes a personal journey with a girl who is severely withdrawn and autistic into an adult who received a college education. The book sheds light on one person's process of recovery.

     Williams, Donna (1994). Somebody somewhere. New York: Times Books/Random House. In this sequel to Nobody Nowhere, Williams discusses the idea that autism is not a blunted awareness of the environment but rather a nearly overwhelming awareness of it. She suggests that the withdrawal characteristic of people with autism is really an attempt to cope with a barrage of sensory stimuli.

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