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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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Language
English
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Description
A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate. When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her lifetime: Autism studies have moved from the realm of psychology to neurology and genetics, and there is far more hope today than...
Publisher
CNN
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (39:50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sue Rubin, who is autistic, was diagnosed and treated as mentally retarded until the age of 13, when she began to communicate using a keyboard. She is now a junior in college. This documentary takes the viewer on a jorney into her mind, her daily world, and her life with autism.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxiii, 215 p. : 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Calling attention to recent advances in early identification and educational therapy, Shirley Cohen, a teacher of teachers, provides expert guidance through the often confusing arena of autism. Informed and humane, her work offers up-to-date research findings within a scientific framework enriched by her own observations and narratives from parents and adults with autism.
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Language
English
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Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation speaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism, bringing with her an extraordinary message about how animals think and feel. Among its provocative ideas, the book: argues that language is not a requirement for consciousness -- and that animals do have consciousness ; applies the autism theory of "hyper-specificity" to animals, showing that animals and autistic people are so sensitive...
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 670 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary narrative history of autism: the riveting story of parents fighting for their children ’s civil rights; of doctors struggling to define autism; of ingenuity, self-advocacy, and profound social change. Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Tally is starting sixth grade at Kingswood Academy and she really wants to fit in, which means somehow hiding her autism, hypersensitivity to touch, and true self, and trying to act "normal" like her former best friend, Layla, who is distancing herself from Tally and her fourteen-year-old sister, Nell, who is always angry with Tally for being different; but as she records her thoughts and anxieties in her coping diary, Tally begins...
Author
Language
English
Description
Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his students to expand their worlds through language. Lately, however, with one child off to college and the pressure from his ex-wife to make plans for their severely autistic son who's about to age out of the system, he prefers the company of the ghosts he turns up in the storage boxes in his crawl space. There he finds the totems that betray the darker moments of his youth -- memories that...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A comic named Jillian and an artist named Dylan are attacked in Arizona by a mad doctor wielding a mysterious injection and are forced to run from his enemies, taking along Dylan's autistic brother, Shep, whereupon they develop incredible traits: psychic sight, extreme altruism, and the ability to teleport.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated for her unique empathy with animals, the subject of Oliver Sacks's An Anthropologist on Mars describes her life with autism and how she has used her strong visual sensibility to cope with it.
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly everyone knows someone on the autism spectrum, whether it's a niece or nephew, a student in their classroom, a coworker, or a sibling, spouse, or child. One in 54 children has autism, according to the CDC, and autism is reported across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Yet most of what people think they know about autism is wrong.
On the Spectrum debunks myths with a realistic yet hope-filled deep dive into the heart, mind, and life...
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intelligent, moving and beautiful portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Through personal footage filmed over a period of 25 years, it is revealed that Sabine's growth and many talents were crushed by improper diagnosis and an inadequate care structure. After a tragic five-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Sabine finally finds a new lease on life, in a home together...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
402 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her bestsellers "Louder Than Words" and "Mother Warriors," McCarthy told stories about healing children with autism. Now she teams up with a preeminent autism doctor to write the first book on a remarkably effective new treatment in healing conditions associated with autism.
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
65 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"This updated edition ... provides an ... introduction to autism. All-new cats take a playful look at the world of autism, and these fun feline friends will strike a chord with all those who are familiar with typical autistic traits, bringing to life common characteristics such as sensory sensitivities, social issues, and communication difficulties"--
Author
Publisher
Future Horizons
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
xix, 426 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Born with autism, both Temple Grandin and Sean Barron now live famously successful social lives. However, their paths were quite different. Temple's logical mind controlled her social behavior. She interacted with many adults and other children, experiencing varied social situations. Logic informed her decision to obey social rules and avoid unpleasant consequences. Sean's emotions controlled his social behavior. Baffled by social rules, isolated...
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
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