Presentations & advocacy
Our team regularly leads workshops on inclusion at school, work & in health care settings. We also connect individuals and families to advocacy resources in Canada. Please contact us to learn more.
Community Resources
Information about autism for families & newly-diagnosed people
For newly diagnosed: Welcome to the Autistic Community, by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network
For autistic youth: Welcome to the Autistic Community (youth version)
For families of newly-diagnosed: Start Here by the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
For families, children & everyone: Neurodivergent Narwhals – Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library (neurodiversitylibrary.org
For families and autistic individuals: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
For families: Uniquely Human, by Dr. Barry Prizant
For families: Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents
Knew, ed. by the Autistic Women and Non-Binary Network
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Self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement
The Alliance Against Seclusion & Restraint
Reframing Behavior: A New Neuroscience Aligned Program for Educators
The Autistic People of Color Fund & Organization
Autism Acceptance, by ASAN
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Movement, by ASAN
Don’t Mourn for Us, by Jim Sinclair
The Double Empathy Problem, explained (Damian Milton, et al.)
History of the autism diagnosis: TED Talk by Steve Silberman
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AAC advocacy organizations & resources
About AAC (Therapist Neurodiversity Collective)
Communication Disabilities Access Canada
CoughDrop Open Access AAC info
AssistiveWare, AAC products, info & support
CommunicationFIRST’s LISTEN (documentary)
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LGBT+ Resources
Autistic and Queer: Coming Out on the Spectrum
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e-books/books for autistics & our families
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
Navigating College: A Handbook on Self Advocacy Written for Autistic Students from Autistic Adults edited by E Ashkenazy & M Latimer
The Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods by Robyn Steward
Autistic and Queer: Coming Out on the Spectrum
Relationships and Sexuality: A handbook by and for Autistic People
Empowering Leadership: A Systems Change Guide for Autistic College Students and Those With Other Disabilities
What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew by Autistic Women’s Network
The Neurodiversity Reader: Exploring Concepts, Lived Experience and Implications for Practice by Damian Milton et. al
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Podcasts
A typing-only podcast party (host Adam Wolfond)
Noncompliant, a neurodiversity podcast (host Anne Borden King)
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Support groups and discussion for allies
Autistic Allies, on Facebook
Autism Inclusivity, on Facebook
A4A Parent Group, on Facebook
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Alternatives to ABA
The re-framing behaviour program
The Foundations for Divergent Minds program
SCERTS: Inclusion program for schools
The Therapist Neurodiversity Collective: OTs, SLPs, PTs
First-Hand Perspectives on Behavioral Interventions for Autistic People and People with other Developmental Disabilities” ed. by the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network