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General Autism Resources


What is autism? 
  • About Autism - short definition of autism from the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
  • Autism 101 - infographic created by Erin Human
  • Welcome to the Autistic Community - guide for autistic people and allies by the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
  • Is everyone "a little autistic"? - Spoiler: no! Maxfield Sparrow explains why
  • Ask An Autistic - series of introductory captioned videos to autism by Amythest Schaber
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What is neurodiversity?
  • The Neurodivergent Narwhals ™ Present: Neurodiversity 101 - from the Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library
  • Neurodiversity 101 - infographic by Erin Human
  • Neurodiverse or neurodivergent? It's more than just grammar - article by Dr. Sue Fletcher-Watson

Social Model of Disability
  • Disability 101: Medical Model vs. Social Model (transcript here) - infographic by Erin Human
  • Medical Model of Disability vs. Social Model of Disability - guide by Democracy Disability and Society Group

For Families, Friends, and Allied Community 
  • Sincerely, Your Autistic Child - book by the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
  • Information and Resources for Parents and Caregivers of Newly Diagnosed Autistic Girls - guide by the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network
  • What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew - book by the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
  • Parenting a Disabled Child: Nurturing Self Worth - auto-captioned Tedx Talk by Shailen Singh
  • How listening to autistic adults helped me understand and support my son - article by Shannon Des Roches Rosa
  • Parenting Autistic Children with Love & Acceptance - Facebook page and community
  • Redefining Autism - Neurodiverse Families in BC - Facebook support group with autistic parent admin
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How We Talk about Autism
  • Identity-First Autistic - campaign to promote identity-first language
  • The Significance of Semantics: Person-First Language: Why It Matters - article by Lydia X. Z. Brown
  • Which terms should be used to describe autism? Perspectives from the UK autism community - journal article by Kenny and colleagues
  • Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers - journal article by Bottema-Beutel and colleagues
  • Talking About How We Talk About Autism - pamphlet by Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Library

​Autistic Burnout
  • What is Autistic Burnout? - guide by Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
  • Help! I Seem to be Getting More Autistic! - article by Mel Baggs
  • What is Autistic Burnout? - captioned video by Amythest Schaber
  • “Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew”: Defining Autistic Burnout - journal article by Raymaker and colleagues

Meltdowns and Shutdowns
  • What Are Autistic Meltdowns? - captioned video by Amythest Schaber
  • What Are Autistic Shutdowns? - captioned video by Amythest Schaber
  • 5 Ways To Support Someone Through a Meltdown - article by Michelle Swan

Camouflaging and Masking
  • Camouflaging in Autism - plain language article by Hull and colleagues
  • Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) - an online version of the CAT-Q originally developed by Hull and colleagues on the Embrace Autism website

Double Empathy, Social Communication, and Reciprocity
  • Double Empathy: Why Autistic People Are Often Misunderstood - plain language article by Crompton and colleagues
  • ​Real Social Skills - blog by Ruti Regan 
  • What Do New Findings About Social Interaction in Autistic Adults Mean for Neurodevelopmental Research? - journal article by Rachael Davis and Catherine J. Crompton

Safety
  • Autism and Safety Toolkit - guide by the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
  • Dear Parents Who Want to Keep Their Nonspeaking Children Safe as They Go Out Into the World - article by Cal Montgomery

COVID-19 
  • Our Great Big List of COVID-19 Resources -Our resource guide for COVID-19
  • COVID Vaccine Resource List-Resources related to COVID-19 Vaccine (CN: Needles)
  • Needle Anxiety Guide (PDF)-A guide on dealing with needle anxiety for Neurodivergent people in PDF format (CN: Needles)
  • Needle Anxiety Guide (Word)-A guide on dealing with needle anxiety for Neurodivergent people in word format (CN: Needles)




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Books

Loud Hands: Autistic People Speaking, edited by Julia Bascom
  • http://autisticadvocacy.org/book/loud-hands-autistic-people-speaking/

Sincerely, Your Autistic Child - edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu
  • https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670589/sincerely-your-autistic-child-by-autistic-women-and-nonbinary-network/ 

What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew, edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Kristina Thomas and Sharon daVanport
  • https://autisticgirls.com/

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, edited by Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, Morénike Giwa Onawiu
  • https://autismandrace.com/all-the-weight-of-our-dreams-anthology/​​

​Typed Words, Loud Voices: A Collection, edited by Amy Sequenzia and Elizabeth J. Grace
  • https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/typed-words-loud-voices

The Real Experts: Readings for Parents of Autistics Kids, edited by Michelle Sutton
  • https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/the-real-experts-readings-for-parents-of-autistic-children-edited-by-michelle-sutton

Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism
  • ​https://autisticadvocacy.org/book/knowing-why/

Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words
  • https://intl.jkp.com/can/spectrums-1.html

Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection
  • https://intl.jkp.com/can/trans-and-autistic-2.html

Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline
  • link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

What is AAC?
  • What is AAC? - article by AssistiveWare
  • List of free symbol-based AAC options - compiled by Kit Autie
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Groups and Organizations
  • Ask Me, I'm an AAC User! - Facebook group led by AAC users
  • Communications Disabilities Access Canada - non-profit organization in Canada
  • CommunicationFIRST - non-profit organization in the USA
  • International Association for Spelling as Communication - international organization

Films
  • LISTEN short film (and resource toolkit) - 5-minute captioned, translated, and audio-described film by non-speaking autistic people with CommunicationFIRST (free to view online)
  • People Like Me (and study guide) - 20-minute captioned and audio-described film by Marrok Sedgwick (free to view online)
  • Deej - captioned and audio-described film produced by DJ Savarese
  • Unspoken - 26-minute captioned film co-directed by Emma Zurcher-Long

Academic Literature
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Speaking Autistic Adults: Overview and Recommendations - Alyssa Hillary Zisk and Elizabeth Dalton
  • “Everyone Deserves AAC”: Preliminary Study of the Experiences of Speaking Autistic Adults Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication  - Amy L. Donaldson, endever* corbin, and Jamie McCoy

Disability Justice

What is Disability Justice? 
  • Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People - a disability justice primer by Sins Invalid
  • The 10 Principles of Disability Justice by Sins Invalid
    2nd edition
    Academic citation
    Plain language version adapted by Jenny Mae Viets

Disability Justice Reading and Resource Lists
  • Resource list by Project Lets
  • Reading list by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Reading list by Sandy Ho, Mia Mingus, and Alice Wong for the #AccessIsLove project

Accessible Event Planning

Holding Inclusive Eve​nts: A Guide to Accessible Event Planning
  • https://pacific-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Accessible-Event-Planning.pdf
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Accessible Event & Conference Planning
  • http://www.accessiblecampus.ca/reference-library/accessible-event-conference-planning/
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How to Plan Events That Prioritize Accessibility
  • http://thinkingautismguide.com/2019/10/how-to-plan-accessible-events.html

Accessible Activism 
  • http://bit.ly/AccessActivism

Auto-Captioning Guide
  • PDF version
  • Word version

Other Resource Lists

Autistic Self-Advocacy Network resource library
  • http://autisticadvocacy.org/resources/

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism resource list
  • http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/p/resources.html

Lydia Brown’s resources
  • https://autistichoya.net/resources/​

    Kip Mead’s resource list
  • https://kpagination.wordpress.com/autism-resources/

​Amythest Scaber’s masterpost
  • http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/autismmasterpost

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