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Books

Barron, Sean, and Judy Barron. There's a Boy in Here. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Bratt, Berneen. No Time for Jello. Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books, 1989.

Cohen, Shirley. Targeting Autism: What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism and Related Disorders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Grandin, Temple, and Oliver Sacks. Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life With Autism. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Grandin, Temple, and Margaret M. Scariano. Emergence: Labeled Autistic. New York: Warner Books, 1996.

Greenfield, Josh. A Child Named Noah. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

Hart, Charles. A Parent's Guide to Autism: Answers to the Most Common Questions. New York: Pocket Books, 1993.

Kaufman, Barry Neil. Son-Rise. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Williams, Donna. Nobody Knows. New York: Times Books, 1992.

Periodicals

Roeder, Jason, "Can Medication Change Behavior in Autism?" The Exceptional Parent (November 1995): pp. 50–54.

Shapiro, Joseph, "Beyond the Rain Main: A Singular Woman Changes the Cattle Industry and Our Image of Autism." U.S. News & World Report (May 27, 1996): pp. 78–79.

Organizations

Autism Network International. PO Box 448, Syracuse, NY 13210.

Autism Research Institute. 4182 Adams Avenue, San Diego, CA 92116. (619) 281–7165.

Autism Society of America. 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 650, Bethesda, MD 20814. (301) 657–0881; (800) 3AUTISM. http://www.autism-society.org .

Center for the Study of Autism. P.O. Box 4538, Salem, OR 97302. http://www.autism.org

National Autism Hotline. c/o Autism Services Center, PO Box 507, 605 Ninth Street, Huntington, WV 25710. (304) 525–8014.

Web sites

National Alliance for Autism Research. http://www.naar.org (accessed on October 18, 1999).

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities. http://www.nichcy.org (accessed on October 18, 1999).

"Autism." Drkoop.com Medical Encyclopedia. [Online] http://www.drkoop.com/conditions/encyclopedia/articles/025000a/autism.html?id=avkey.autism.lk (accessed on October 18, 1999).