This Mid-America Emmy Award winning film launches an exciting campaign that calls our communities, our kids and the world to learn, understand and accept those living with autism. Harnessing the power of film to connect and create empathy in others in an unprecedented way, this documentary captures the real life stories of three children and their best friends/sibling. They explain their lives with autism in relatable everyday scenes. The kids and...

This book explores the nature of autism, a developmental disorder with varying degrees of severity, including its history, diagnosis, treatment, and possible causes.

Describes what it is like to live with autism, what its symptoms are, and how it is treated.

Presents articles and essays espousing opposing viewpoints on issues concerning autism, such as what causes autism and whether or not it is really as big a problem in America as some make it out to be.

Autism is not a disease or an illness. People with autism think, act, and communicate differently than non-autistic people. Some autistic people do not speak. Others may get overwhelmed easily. Learn about the ways that people with autism adapt to living in a world that often fails to understand them. Level 3 readers are aimed at children who are reading by themselves and can grasp new concepts. Key words and captions help readers understand new...

Autism is usually portrayed as a checklist of deficits, including difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. This perspective leads to therapies focused on ridding individuals of "autistic" symptoms. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant, an internationally renowned autism expert, offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don't aim at fixing a person by...

"Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with...

"In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Generation Rescue's co-founder J.B. Handley offers a compelling, science-based explanation of what's causing the autism epidemic, the lies that enable its perpetuation, and the steps we must take as parents and as a society in order to end it. While many parents have heard the rhetoric that vaccines are safe and effective and that the science is settled about the relationship between vaccines and autism, few realize...