joannalife.com — My adventures in raising my children, Lil Angel is 10, Monkey is 9 and Pumpkin 7. Monkey has Autism. The goal of my blog is to raise Autism Awareness by sharing my stories of our life. This blog is PR friendly, check out my product review info page.

autismrocks918.blogspot.com — A very real sneak-peek into the life of a child with "Super Powers". Hopefully our unique perspective on Autism will educate others and build positive community. Education leads to compassion and acceptance.

spectrumadvocacy.com — Online resource for all things autism... new website recently launched, still a work in progress, would love suggestions for topics to cover!!! send me your ideas and help me to get the word out there!

outoftheazul.wordpress.com — Out Of The Blue is the blog of a junior ABA therapist/tutor who is passionate about autism and always looking to learn more. Check it out! About Blue During the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school, I was lucky enough to meet my first person with autism, an amazing boy who I was fortunate enough to be a camp counselor for. After spending two weeks with him, I was hooked, and I have spent my time ever since pursuing ways to work with more people like him. Since then, I’ve volunteered and worked at an autism-focused NPS, an amazing social skills summer camp for kids with Asperger’s and Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities, a self-contained elementary school SPED class, and am now currently working as a junior behavior therapist doing early intervention ABA therapy with kids on the spectrum. When I’m not hanging out with the awesome kids I work with, I enjoy playing the celtic harp, reading, and playing with my insane cat, Toby. What This Blog Is (And Isn’t) This blog is a place for me to explore thoughts I have about autism, including reactions I have to books and news articles I encounter. I will sometimes discuss thoughts that have come to me as a result of my work as a junior ABA therapist, while maintaining strict confidentiality for the amazing kids I work with. This blog is not meant to provide any professional advice or to serve as any sort of therapeutic guideline. Everything written in this blog is simply the opinion of the author, and is meant to be thought-provoking, not instructive towards a specific course of action. If you are looking for help or recommendations for someone you know with autism, please contact a professional in your area. I would be happy to try to help you find someone to contact, if you need help, but I am not qualified to give any professional advice. The thoughts expressed in this blog are mine and mine alone. They do not represent the thoughts of my employer, my clients, or any other individual besides myself, unless specifically noted.

treatautismnow.wordpress.com — This Site documents some of the experiences of the many treatments undertaken with my son Sahil and the ongoing research of programs/protocols that help special needs children. Harshita Mahajan

theothersideofnormal.com — Sometimes life throws you a curve ball, and it’s up to you to decide if you’re going to duck or if you stand strong and face it head on. Sometimes that’s a split second decision… and other times it’s a lifelong decision. I choose to face it. And everyday is a new adventure. Our 18 year old has autism.  And this blog will let you into our ‘normal’ world.

drbowers.wordpress.com — Dr. Mark Bowers is a Licensed Pediatric Psychologist in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   He has provided psychological services to children, adolescents, and families for over a decade.  He specializes in neurodevelopmental diagnoses (i.e., Autism, Asperger’s, ADHD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Learning Difficulties) and he is an expert in social skills.  Dr. Bowers has contributed to articles in WebMD magazine, Scholastic, and Parenting: The Early Years.  He is the co-creator of a mobile app to help children and teens improve social skills and he is the author of the book Sōsh: Improving Social Skills with Children and Adolescents.

autisticspeaks.wordpress.com — I’m Lydia.  I’m currently 23 (and no promises I’ll change this to 24 or even to 25 when my birthday rolls around…).  The number one thing to know about me is that I am a Christian… but lest that scare you away somehow, don’t let it.  I don’t dare tell anyone else what to say, do, think, or believe, and I have friends and family in the Autism World of ours of all faiths and nonfaiths.   I tend to love what I love to the extreme.  Like, I don’t just like Food Network… it’s on just about 24 hours a day at my house.  I call the chefs my friends.  Alton Brown is my favorite, but his show is only on in the middle of the night, so now I watch Iron Chef America just to get my Alton fix.  But since Alton’s not technically a chef, my favorite actual chef is probably Anne Burrell.  She’s so cool.   Oh, and cats.  I am entirely in love with and obsessed with my cat Elsie Penelope.  She’s 13… best friends since I was 10 years old.  She’s seen me through so much, not to mention that she kind of ridiculously adorable.   Oh, and I love to write (or more accurately, type).  I have my own book (available here and also on Kindle), and I blog, and I Twitter and Facebook and Gmail chat… love it all!   And I’m purposely discussing this last so as not to make it my defining feature, but I have autism.  The next question I always get is, Asperger’s, right?  Um… well, no one really knows.  Or rather, everyone thinks they know, but no one can agree.  If I have Asperger’s, I have a lot more severe issues than most people with AS (but my neuropsych does say Asperger’s).  The most recent label I got was “the high end of moderate autism.”  The person who knows me best, at least I think she does, says HFA.  I can be verbal, or I can be not at all.  I can sit at my computer, alone in my apartment with my cat and my Food Network (so, totally in my comfort zone) and display incredible insight… but none of that really transfers to real life.  I’m quite talented academically, but I have total, hours-long meltdowns over things like the TV screen freezing.   All that said, they’re going to continue to disagree over “how autistic” I am, but I’ve settled on realizing that I have both awesome gifts and surprising deficits, and that those gifts and deficits change from day to day, hour to hour. So, I’m a lot of things.  But mostly, I’m just Lydia, no more or less.

adventuresinaspergers.com — Thomas is a 28-year-old father of three boys, the oldest of whom, Jayden, has Asperger's. This dad blogger admits to being a bit "odd and irreverent" in his posts, but his unique and honest sense of humor — and reluctance to sweat the finer points of punctuation — is refreshing. He writes about Autism Day: "Every once in a while its okay to just let everyone else be aware or a crusader or whatever for a day & you just pour yourself a bit of coconut rum in with your OJ on a Sunday morning & roll with the day as best you can." As a professional photographer (that’s in addition to his full-time gig as an EMT), Thomas fills his blog with beautiful photos of his family that make their story burst with life. He writes of one close-up he recently took of Jayden, “This picture is a picture of aspergers, this picture is a picture of autism, this picture is my son Jayden.”

extremeparenthood.com — My name is Sunday Stilwell and I am the frazzled mom behind the screaming banshee mask. Adventures in Extreme Parenthood is where I tell my tales of raising 2 boys on the severe end of the autism spectrum while attempting to laugh and blog about it. I began blogging in the winter of 2008 as a way of coping with life as a newly separated woman, navigating a divorce, working full time, and my boys' school and therapy schedules. By the grace of God I made it through that first year unscathed and have rounded the corner of 2010 as a newlywed, stay-at-home mom, still trying to keep my head above water in the sea of IEPs, school schedules, doctor appointments, and playdates. I'm glad you're here and I hope you'll stick around awhile and learn a bit more about me, my boys, and our crazy life. Twitter is one of the ways I love keeping in contact with new and interesting people.  You can find me over there by following @xtremeparnthood.  If Facebook is more your thing I have that covered too!  You can find the banshee by searching for me by my name, Sunday Stilwell. Lets get the conversation started!