Autism Spectrum Disorders and PDD

Background Information:

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Autism Fact Sheet (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

 

Books in the Edith Hamilton Library:

Non-Fiction:

616.85 N	Nazeer, Kamran.	Send in the idiots: stories from the other side of autism. 1st U.S. ed. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Pub: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
618.92 D	D'Ambrosio, Richard Anthony.	No language but a cry,. New York, Doubleday, 1970.
921 Williams	Williams, Donna	Nobody nowhere: the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic. New York : Times Books, c1992.
921 Gorman	Gorman, Jacquelin	The Seeing Glass: A memoir, NewYork, Riverhead Books, 1997

Fiction:

FIC Bau	Bauer, Ann	A wild ride up the cupboards: a novel. New York Scribner, c2005.
FIC Had	Haddon, Mark	The curious incident of the dog in the night-time : a novel. New York, Doubleday, 2003.
FIC Rod	Rodowsky, Colby F.	Clay. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001.

Web Gateways:

MedlinePlus This site is produced by the National Library of Medicine, and is full of information on all aspects of autism.

Center for the Study of Autism

Autism Society of America

CDC Autism Information Center

Autism Resources

Vaccines and Autism

CDC Vaccines and Autism Theory

CNN.Com Health

Local Support:

Kennedy Kreiger Institute

The Parent's Place of Maryland This Site has links to legal and advocacy information as well as IDEA (Individuals with Disabilites Act).

Baltimore's Child This publication is full of useful information for special needs children. In addition, a special needs issue of Baltimore's Child is published periodically.

Periodical Articles: There are many articles available on the the topics of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder (including Asperger's Syndrome). To search, check the following databases from the Library Homepage under the terms "Autism" "Asperger's" "Asperger Syndrome", "Pervasive Developmental Disorder", "PDD". You may want to add another term to narrow your search. For example Asperger's AND Language Development or Autism AND Education. You can access the databases from home, but must have the username and password for each database.

ELibrary, Proquest Platinum, Proquest Newspapers , JSTOR

Here are a few articles:

F.J. O'Callaghan
Autism - what is it and where does it come from?
QJM, May 2002; 95: 263 - 265.

Peter Szatmari, Susan E. Bryson, David L. Streiner, Freda Wilson, Lynda Archer, and Cynthia Ryerse
Two-Year Outcome of Preschool Children With Autism or Asperger's Syndrome
Am. J. Psychiatry, Dec 2000; 157: 1980 - 1987.

Fred R. Volkmar, Ami Klin, Robert T. Schultz, Emily Rubin, and Richard Bronen
Asperger's Disorder
Am. J. Psychiatry, Feb 2000; 157: 262 - 267.

Susan L. Hyman, MD ; Patricia M. Rodier, PhD ; Philip Davidson, PhD Pervasive

Developmental Disorders in Young Children JAMA.  2001;285:3141-3142

The above articles are linked to HighwirePress.org with permission.

Updated September, 2007