Autism

[sazza76]

Hi,
My 3 year old son has just been diagnosed with ASD, can anyone recommend any good books for me and family to read? There seem to be so many on Amazon and I can't afford them all!

Thanks in advance x

Lift everything you can out of your local library! Also check the NAS website for information and bibliographies. Jessica Kingsley Press do great books on ASD. Our SALT gave s a really interesting book list, and the department had most of the list to borrow, try there

I found the book 'Autism 4 dummies' very good. Bad title but very good book, written in simple plain english, it is part of the 4 dummies range.

Many of the research papers included in CiteULike Group: Autism - library 332 articles are "Full Free Text" especially if you follow the "PubMed Central" links. This may help with a great deal of background information.

'More Than Words' is excellent parenting manual fir the early years.

"Through the eyes of aliens" Jasmine O' neal

Have you been in contact with the NAS for local support groups, there really handy and some run a sort of lending library. Often other mums will be pleased to lend their books too.

I wouldnt get the dummies book, it is a bit simplistic and most of the contents can be found on the NAS website for free anyway.

Thank you very much everyone, lots of info there for me to follow up.

Raffle - My first stop was our local library, and despite being quite large it had no books on ASD in stock, and only 3 at all which were all reserved for a long time to come. I was very surprised. We haven't got as far as SALT yet but I will ask them too when we do.

LunarRose, I've just joined my local NAS support group, I hadnt thought of them having books thank you I will ask.

I don't know if it's common but our group does!!! I would certainly do a shout out and ask if anyone has the books you are looking for anyway.

Actually between the NAS website, the helpline and here I think you can probably find out most of the things you need to know. I think books are good for giving a perspective. The curious incident of the Dog at midnight is really good and can usually be picked up cheaply at boot fairs and charity shops.

Thanks again LunarRose, I'm finding it all a little daunting at the moment, all very new.
I forgot about the curious incident, I have read it but before I had my son so re-reading it now with a different perspective is a good idea :-)

If you join Cerebra lending library they will post you books for free - they have lots on autism

Some CDCs have a loan library too.I borrowed more than words from my local one. Sky Tv has a channel that shows aUtism today a sort of fly on the wall program which is easy to watch if you don't mind lots of advert breaks. Not sure if it is still on.

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Marc Haddon is very good- about a boy aged about 15 who has aspergers.

Also My name is Thomas and I have autism is a good and very short kids book.