Autism's False Prophets

Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit speaks about the history autism research and how it is exploited by people. offit talks about the supposed causes and treatments for autism and how they might actually be harming your child instead of helping them. Autism's False Prophets is a great book for those searching for answers or any information on autism.

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Songs of the Gorilla Nation

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism is by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D, an inspiring woman who overcome the solitude of undiagnosed Asperger's by studying and connecting with gorillas. Her memoir recalls childhood years of pervasive fear and chaos, and a confusing youth clouded by drugs and exotic dancing. Dawn finally finds her identity as a successful anthropologist, working with primates who, like her, are "captive animals who don't speak the language, look the looks, move in the right ways."

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New Club at Indiana University - Students on the Spectrum

The Indiana Resource Center for Autism at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University in Bloomington is excited to announce its support of a new student group on the Bloomington campus: Students on the Spectrum. S.O.S. is starting to meet this Fall 2009 with the initial, Call Out meeting on Sunday September 20th from 7-9pm in the Redbud Room at the Indiana Memorial Union.

All Indiana University Students who live with an autism spectrum disorder are welcome. This group will provide students the opportunity to engage with each other and others in the University community around topics of interest such as becoming an effective self-advocate, dealing with anxiety, communication and social skills and finding supports and activities on campus and in the community. For further information please contact the S.O.S. Club advisor at the Indiana Resource Center for Autism: Marci Wheeler; mwheeler@indiana.edu
or 812-855-6508.

Aquamarine Blue 5

Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes gives the stories of five college students that have either high-functioning autism or asperger's syndrome. Each individual gives their experiences about interacting with other in college life and how they believe that their unique way of thinking could be put to good use if they were given the right opportunity. Aquamarine Blue 5 allows others in the same situations to know they are not alone and to gather strength from other peoples' experiences.

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Dr. Temple Grandin Speaks On

Dr. Temple Grandin Speaks On is a four VHS series is set on helping families and professionals better understand how to help people with autism in certain situations. Each video is dedicated to a different subject: developing careers, diagnosis and evaluation, visual thinking and emotions, and sensory problems and learning language. Dr. Grandin gives helpful advice on each subject while including her own experiences into the videos.

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From YouTube: Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor's Guide

Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor's Guide

Part 1 of the first DVD in the series "Asperger Syndrome and Adulthood," this video is intended for use by college students with Asperger Syndrome to educate their professors, teaching assistants, etc. on what it means to be a college student on the spectrum and how they might best be able to help them succeed. OAR produced the DVD in cooperation with the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Project (GRASP) and Pace University in New York City thanks to a generous grant from the Schwallie Family Foundation.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233-3jtEZck&feature=channel_page

Part 2 of Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A College Professor's Guide. This is the first DVD of the series "Asperger Syndrome and Adulthood." Find more about this video series at www.researchautism.org.
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imv-KA5VQBE&feature=channel_page

Siblings of Children with Autism

Topics in Autism Siblings of Children with Autism: A Guide for Families charts a course for families who have children with and without autism to meet the needs of both. With the book, the reader will learn how to explain what autism is to their other child, and how to help the siblings without autism share their feelings. In addition, siblings of Children with Autism explains how to meet not only the needs of the sibling with autism but making sure the other sibling isn't left behind. It is an excellent way to learn how to care not only for a child with autism but also one without.

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