Autism Books: Children's - General Disability


Roz Espin & Beverley Ransom, illustrator.
Amazingly.. Alphie!: Understanding and Accepting Different Ways of Being (Autism Asperger Publishing). I haven't seen that this is specifically about autism, but looks like it fits it well. ISBN: 1931282536 (paperback, 44 pages). [general,children,disability]
Deborah Kent.
Extraordinary People With Disabilities (Grolier, 1996). Collection of biographies about 48 famous people with disabilities of all sorts. Among them is Temple Grandin. ISBN: 0516200216 (hardcover, 288 pages, Scholastic Library Pub, 1996); ISBN: 0613544722 (hardcover, Bt Bound, 1997); ISBN: 051626074X (paperback, 256 pages, Children's Press, Danbury, CT, 1997). [disability,children,account]
Melvin D. Levine.
All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student's Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders (Cambridge, MA: Educators Publishing Service, 1992). ISBN: 0838820905 (paperback, 283 pages). [disability,account,children]
Donald J. Meyer, ed & Cary Pillo, illustrator.
Views from our Shoes: Growing up with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs (Woodbine House, 1997). Grades 3-7. Writings from siblings. Includes glossary and resource list. Reader: my daughter really enjoys it. http://www.woodbinehouse.com/views.html ISBN: 0933149980 (paperback, 114 pages). [disability,children,family]
Donald Joseph Meyer & Patricia Vadasy.
Living with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs: A Book for Sibs, 2nd edition (University of Washington, 1996). Aimed at ages 4-8. ISBN: 0295975474 (paperback). [disability,children,family]
Mary Thompson.
My Brother, Matthew (Woodbine House, 1992). 28 pages, hardcover, illustrated. Grades K-5. About a boy whose brother has a disability. I assume the disability is not autism. http://www.woodbinehouse.com/mbm.html ISBN: 0933149476 (hardcover). [disability,children,fiction]

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