Category Archives: Books

Adult Asperger’s / ASD Book List

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Mariner Books, 2006.

Be Different: My Adventures with Asperger’s and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families and Teachers by John Elder Robison, Broadway, 2012.

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet, Free Press, 2007.

The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome by Tony Attwood, Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2008.

Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind by Daniel Tammet, Free Press, 2009.

Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin and Margaret M. Scariano, Warner Books, 1996.

The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to be a Better Husband by David Finch, Scribner, 2012.

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison, Broadway; Reprint edition, 2008.

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D, Three Rivers Press,2004.

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery, Houghton Mifflin, 2012.

Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin, Vintage, 1996.

Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of AutismBy Temple Grandin and Sean Barron, Future Horizons, 2005.

The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition by Temple Grandin, Future Horizons, 2011.

Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone

By: Douglas Biklen (Ed.)

Autism has been defined by experts as a complex developmental disorder that appears in the first three years of life, affecting the brain’s normal development…