autism

Teens with autism may experience repetitive patterns of behavior and challenges with social interactions. What Is Autism? explores this disorder, how it affects teens, and how it is managed.

"There are many ways your body can feel bad, and a great many things your body might need, but there is always something you can do to make your body feel better! Designed to help children on the autism spectrum develop insight into what can upset them and make them feel bad, this book uses simple words, pictures and icons to increase awareness of how to feel good again. It proceeds through various components of the body and mind to identify things that can go wrong and explore how to set them right. Suitable to be read with an adult, this book provides additional problem-solving exercises and skills practice in the form of activities, games and worksheets"--Back cover.

Includes a wide range of opinions surrounding issues concerning vaccination.

Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.

"Lauren, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder, reluctantly takes on the role of flower girl in her aunt's wedding. While it's difficult to break her familiar routines and deal with unfamiliar cousins and scratchy dresses, Lauren eventually decides that having an extended family is worth the bother"--Provided by publisher.

"Recounts the author's struggle with her brother's diagnosis and how she became his protector and ultimately decided to help other special needs people"--OCLC.

Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.

"Eighth-grader Niki's best friend, Ava, dumps her just as life at home is becoming more complicated by her brother Danny's behavior and her mother's refusal to admit Danny is on the autism spectrum"--Provided by publisher..

Fourth-graders Maisie and Hank, who has autism, become friends as they devise schemes to save a neighbor's dog, Booler, from being tied to a tree because of his epilepsy.

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 to wonder--what is "normal" anyway?.