Links & Resources

Links

About Mark Haddon's work

• Mark Haddon's Web site
• Powells.com's interview with Mark Haddon

About Autism

• Autism Experts from AutismToday.com
• Autism Society of America
• Association for Science in Treatment of Autism ASAT
• Center for the Study of Autism
• Cure Autism Now: CAN
• GVSU Statewide Autism Resources and Training START Program
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Autism Overview 2005
• National Institute of Mental Health online pamphlet

Other "One Book" Community Reading Programs

• A list by the Library of Congress
• A list by the Michigan Center for the Book

Local

• Kalamazoo/Battle Creek Autism Society
  800-628-6421
• Kalamazoo RESA Autism Program
• WMU Center for Autism
  387-4459

Resources: Print 

General Works on Autism

See your library's 618.92 section for non-fiction self-help resources on autism and Asperger syndrome.

• Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences with Autism and Asperger syndrome
  Stephen M. Shore
  2001
• The Exact Mind: An Artist with Asperger syndrome
  Peter Myers, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright
  2004
• The genesis of artistic creativity: Asperger syndrome and the arts
  Michael Fitzgerald
  2005
• George and Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism
  Charlotte Moore
  2006
• Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism
  Catherine Maurice
  1994
• Nobody Nowhere: the Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic
  Donna Williams
  1994
• Pretending to Be Normal: Living With Asperger syndrome
  Liane Holliday Willey
  1999
• Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story
  Eustacia Cutler
  2004
• Your Life is Not a Label: A Guide to Living Fully with Autism and Asperger syndrome
  Jerry Newport
  2001
• Emergence:  Labeled Autistic
  Temple Grandin
  1986

Fiction

• The Speed of Dark
  Elizabeth Moon
  2004
• Eye Contact
  Cammie McGovern
  2006
• Dark Eye
  William Bernhardt
  2005

For Younger Readers

• Blue bottle mystery: an Asperger adventure
  Kathy Hoopmann, 2001
• The Case of the Prank that Stank #1 (Wright and Wong)
  Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz, 2005
• Looking after Louis
  Lesley Ely and Polly Dunbar, 2004
• My Friend with Autism:  A Coloring Book For Peers and Siblings
  Beverly Bishop and Craig Bishop, 2003
• Rules
  Cynthia Lord, 2006

Resources: Audiovisual

• Autism and Me (DVD, 20 min.)
  Rory Hoy, 2007
• Autism is a World (DVD, 40 min.)
  CNN Presents, 2004
• The Invisible Wall: Autism (DVD, 52 min)
  Discovery Channel University, 2001
• Mozart and the Whale (DVD, 94 min)
  Sony Pictures, 2006
• Normal People Scare Me: A film about Autism (DVD, 90 min)
  The Autism Perspective, 2006