The Autism Society has been celebrating April as National Autism Awareness Month since the 1970s. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a range of neurodevelopment disorders (including Asperger's Syndrome or AS) that can include social impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted or repetitive patterns of behavior. One in every 110 American children is living with autism.
CHL has items on this topic to help you learn more.
Could It Be You? Overcoming Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, OCD, Tourette's Syndrome, Autism, and Asperger's Syndrome in Adults
By Dr. Robin Pauc with Carina Norris
This is a unique book in that it focuses on adults with autism (and other neurological issues); most resources on autism focus on children.
Dietary Interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Why They Work When They Do, Why They Don't When They Don't
By Kenneth J. Aitken
This book provides an introduction to the clinical conditions that can cause autistic behavior and how diet can affect many of them.
Eating for Autism: The 10-Step Nutrition Plan to Help Treat Your Child's Autism, Asperger's, or ADHD
By Elizabeth Strickland, M.S., R.D., L.D.
A breakthrough guide to the nutrition-autism connection: the foods, meals, and supplements to feed your child to improve an autism spectrum condition.
A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome: Solution Focused Approaches
By E. Veronica Bliss and Genevieve Edmonds
The authors highlight how treating Asperger Syndrome as a "problem" is unproductive, and advocates a solution focused approach which recognizes and uses the strengths of people with AS to foster mutual respect and understanding.
Echoes of Autism
This ABC News program profiles studies designed to determine if people with autism experience love, romantic attraction, and heartbreak the same way non-autistic people feel those emotions.
On the Spectrum: Coping With Asperger's and Autism
This DVD is a documentary about people successfully coping with Asperger Syndrome and autism.
Autism Fact Sheet
This website from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke gives a basic overview of the facts pertaining to autism.
Concerns About Autism
Find out what the Centers for Disease Control have to say about whether there is a connection between autism and vaccines.
Treatments for Autism
Read this website from Autism Speaks, a science and advocacy organization, to learn more about a variety of treatments for autism.
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