Autism and Me: Sibling Stories by Ouisie Shapiro is a book of testimonials from children about what it’s like to have a sibling with autism. The stories are accompanied by large photographs of the siblings playing together, smiling, reading, hugging, etc. Honest and touching, the stories are each unique and yet completely relatable. One boy named Troy admits that his brother Sam, “bugs [him] a lot of the time” and then goes on to say that he doesn’t let his brother into his r

Along that vein (pun not intended), I recently came across the website for the Help Autism Now Society. Because autistic kids often have trouble with new situations, HANS is developing a series of free online read-along stories for kids that show step-by-step what to expect at a doctor’s visit. The stories feature kid-friendly drawings accompanied by a cute recording of a child reading the text aloud. So far they only have two titles (“Getting Blood Drawn” and “Going to the D