April is Autism Month!

Autism New Jersey is a nonprofit agency providing information and advocacy, services, family and professional education and consultation. Autism New Jersey is located at 1450 Parkside Avenue, Suite 22, Ewing, NJ 08638; Phone: 609-883-8100 or 1-800-4-AUTISM; Website: www.autismnj.org

The Mercer County Library System has in its collection the following resources:

The Autism & ADHD Diet: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hope and Healing by Living Gluten Free and Casein Free (GFCF) and Other Interventions / Silberberg, Barrie.
This book will answer many of your questions about the GFCF diet and show you ways to make it work well for you and your family.

Could It Be Autism? : A Parent's Guide to the First Signs and Next Steps / Wiseman, Nancy D. with Kim Painter Koffsky.
Writing conversationally, Wiseman covers all the autism bases-symptom detection, diagnosis, treatment options, redefining parental obligation-in 10 topical chapters, splicing comments from parents of autistic children with advocacy information.

Marcelo in the Real World / Stork, Francisco X.
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

Borderline / Rozanski, Bonnie.
This young adult novel is a skewed coming-of-age story of a normal boy in a crazy world — a fast-paced world of high-tech gismos, global air travel and antibiotics, a world in which high schools have replaced cafeterias with fast food counters and the scourges of autism, asthma, allergies, diabetes and obesity are the norm.

Rules / Lord, Cynthia.
A Newbery Honor book, Catherine is an endearing narrator who tells her story with both humor and heartbreak. Her love for her brother is as real as are her frustrations with him. Lord has candidly captured the delicate dynamics in a family that revolves around a child's disability.

My Friend Has Autism? (Friends with Disabilities) / Tourville, Doeing Amanda.
2010 picture book, Zack has a disability called autism. This does not matter to his friend. They talk about airplanes, build models, and enjoy hanging out at each other’s house.

- Miss Susan

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