Recommended reading for healthcare professionals, and others, interested in learning more about supporting autistic people.

Clinician Resources and Practice Guidelines
- “More Than Words: Supporting effective communication with autistic people in health care settings” by G. Williams et al 2022
- Doherty M, McCowan S, Shaw SC. Autistic SPACE: a novel framework for meeting the needs of autistic people in healthcare settings. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2023;84(4):1-9. doi:10.12968/hmed.2023.0006
- “Everything is Connected to Everything: Improving Healthcare for Autistic and ADHD Adults” from All Brains Belong VT
- “A Neurodiversity-Affirming Toolkit for OTPs Supporting Neurodivergent Children and Youth: An Introduction to Embracing Neurodivergent Occupations” by Bryden Carlson-Giving, MAOT, OTR/L

Books: Neurodiversity Movement, Autism
- Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker
- The Autism Industrial Complex: How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism Into Big Business by Alicia A. Broderick
- We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia
- Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking ed. by Julian Bascom
- Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg
- What I Want to Talk About: How Autistic Special Interests Shape a Life by Pete Wharmby
- Sincerely, Your Autistic Child ed. by Emily Paige Ballou
- I Will Die On This Hill: Autistic Adults, Autism Parents, and the Children Who Deserve a Better World by Meghan Ashburn and Jules Edwards

Books: Supporting LGBTQIA+ autistic patients
- Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults by Finn Gratton
- The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care ed. by Zena Sharman
- The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health ed. by Zena Sharman

Books: Disability
- Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann
- Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
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