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Book Review: Raising Resilient Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

In the past, the Raising Resilient Children series has helped multitudes of families everywhere approach hard-to-discuss issues. Now, Dr. Robert Brooks and Dr. Sam Goldstein focus on autism spectrum with their new book,…
Book Review: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism

I sat and read this book over a couple of days and I loved it. The introduction begins, “This is the book we wish we’d been given when autism first became part of our lives…” the editors have pu…
Best-selling Novelist Picoult Rules the House with Book on Asperger's

After submitting my press credentials, I requested a press review copy of House Rules from the publisher. This is an independent review.
Book Review: Gravity Pulls You In

Last summer, my friends Kyra Anderson and Vicki Forman asked me to write a foreword for the anthology of autism stories they's been working on for the past few years. I'm proud to tell you that they completed the proj…
Book Review: Trueman Bradley- Aspie Detective

I wanted to make everyone aware of a rather fun novel called Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective by Alexei Maxim Russell. This book is ideal for the new novel reader, young tween or teen. It is perfect (depending on thei…
"I Am in Here" by Elizabeth M. Bonker and Virginia G Breen

I Am in Here by Elizabeth M. Bonker and Virginia G Breen How refreshing to find the story of an autistic girl for a change? Not that this is the first by any means, but there are certainly fewer. Here we read about E…
Book Review: Ben Has Autism. Ben Is Awesome!

Books in general that discuss Autism can be tricky since Autism can vary so very widely from person to person. Being the huge spectrum that it is, it’s effects can be completely different from one person to the n…
Book Review: Special Diets for Special Kids

What on earth can help my autistic child? We are at our wits end and think we have exhausted all avenues to help our child with autism. Surely with so many children diagnosed with ASD someone should have found a way to…
Gravity Pulls You In

None of these authors have it! (Though I'd wager each one could define it. They are that vicariously in tune with their kids on the spectrum.) An anthology of perspectives on parenting, titled Gravity Pulls You In, is…
An Ode to Temple Grandin

Thinking in Pictures, in my opinion, is Temple's best book. HBO memorialized the world's most famous person living with autism on the collective psyches of mainstream media-loving America. My review of the movie, her…