Parent Resource List
Videos
What is Autism (Animated Explanation of Autism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fy7gUIp8Ms
Video link: https://youtu.be/6fy7gUIp8Ms
Just like you-Autism website: http://www.justlikeyou-autism.org/index.php
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0w6carvS8k
What are you doing? [Australia, short film]
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rguyTZeeQv8
Explaining Autism to Children: ASD and Me, Teresa DeMars [book preview on YouTube]
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU-7946HlMw
Ask an Autistic: What is Autism?[first person explanation]
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vju1EbVVgP8
Autism explained for kids (puppet): https://youtu.be/DrrXMO-NrCM
Books
My Autism Book: A Child’s Guide to their Autism Spectrum Diagnosis
by Tamar Levi Glòria Durà-Vilà
My Autism
by Colette Evangelistat
Should You Explain the Diagnosis?
by Tony Attwood, Ph.D.
Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes
by Jennifer Elder
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (And Their Parents)
by Elizabeth Verdick and Elizabeth Reeve, M.D.
Thinking in Pictures, Temple Grandin, My life with Autism
Let Me Hear Your Voice, Catherine Maurice, A family’s triumph over Autism.
Behavioral Interventions for Young Children with Autism, by Cathrine Maurice, Gina Green and Stephen Lee
A Work in Progress: Behavior Management Strategies and a Curriculum for Intensive Behavioral Treatment of Autism, by Ron Leaf and John McEachin
Websites
American Sign Language (ASL) http://lifeprint.com
Autism Society of America http://www.autism-society.org/
Alaska Airlines Fly For All app, https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/fly-for-all-app-ease-anxiety-of-air-travel/