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Explore the Organization for Autism Research’s resources designed for real-world use, from quick handouts to in-depth toolkits. Browse by topic, life stage, or format to find what you need!

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  • Autism, My Sibling, and Me

    Autism, My Sibling, and Me

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    Autism, My Sibling, and Me is a fun and engaging workbook for children between the ages of 5 and 10. A host of colorful cartoon characters accompany these siblings as they learn about what autism means for their brother or sister – and handle potentially stressful issues. Through fun activities and supportive content, this resource also helps children work through many of the autism-related questions they may have. 
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  • Life as an Autism Sibling: A Guide for Teens

    Life as an Autism Sibling: A Guide for Teens

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    Life as an Autism Sibling: A Guide for Teens is a handbook for teenage (and even pre-teen) siblings that offers guidance on how to productively address feelings and challenges that may arise as an autism sibling. The resource covers a variety of topics; from explaining autism to friends and peers, to coping with a family dynamic that’s different from what friends may experience. It also features testimonials from other teenage and young adult siblings who have “been there, done that.” 
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  • Brothers, Sisters, and Autism: A Parent’s Guide

    Brothers, Sisters, and Autism: A Parent’s Guide

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    Brothers, Sisters, and Autism: A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Siblings outlines what parents can do to support children who do not have an autism diagnosis. The topics range from dealing with perceived discrepancies fairly to facilitating a positive relationship between siblings. The guide also includes testimonials from families with autism who deal with similar issues. It can be read from start to finish or used as a reference tool to troubleshoot problems as they arise. 
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  • Finding Your Way: A College Guide for Students on the Spectrum

    Finding Your Way: A College Guide for Students on the Spectrum

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    Everyone deserves a fulfilling college experience, including students on the autism spectrum. OAR’s Finding Your Way: A College Guide for Students on the Spectrum is intended to help autistic students become better prepared for college life and academics. This guide addresses challenges that are both universal and unique to students on the autism spectrum by providing helpful information, guidance, and resources. Finding Your Way offers practical advice from autism experts, powerful narratives from self-advocates, and relevant resource tools. It is intended to help readers anticipate and improve their academic and social situations by advocating for themselves. 
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  • A Mental Health Guide for Autistic College Students

    A Mental Health Guide for Autistic College Students

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    Every student experiences stress at some point during college. Created by a team led by Vanessa Bal, Ph.D. and Evan Kleiman, Ph.D. at Rutgers University, OAR’s Mental Health Guide for Autistic College Students is intended to help autistic students promote their own well-being and know when and where to seek mental health services during college. The Mental Health Guide addresses challenges that may come up, as well as tips to promote well-being and cope with feeling overwhelmed. The guide also offers practical advice for navigating access to mental health care for autistic college students and their parents. 
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  • College Central

    College Central

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    College Central is OAR's resource hub for autistic college students. Explore our collection of resources navigating topics such as self-advocacy, academics, campus life, and career and money.
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  • Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor’s Guide

    Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor’s Guide

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    At just over 15 minutes in length, this video is long enough to give a concise introduction to life as an autistic college student. It allows students to practice self-advocacy by identifying needed and reasonable accommodations to help them be successful. By using this video, autistic adults will be teaching others what it means to be a college student from their point of view. Students are encouraged to send this video to their professors.
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  • Sex Ed for Self-Advocates

    Sex Ed for Self-Advocates

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    This guide is a sexuality and sex education resource written specifically for autistic people age 15 and up. Autistic people sometimes don’t have the chance to learn about sexuality and sex in ways that work for them, so OAR created this guide as a starting point to change that. In each of the nine sections of the guide, self-advocates will be able to read articles and watch brief videos before testing their knowledge about a given topic and practicing new skills.
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  • Safer Dating for Youth on the Autism Spectrum

    Safer Dating for Youth on the Autism Spectrum

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    Written by researchers at Boston Medical Center, this curriculum is for educating autistic young adults about how to build and maintain healthy relationships in college.
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  • Autism Training for Sexual Assault Counselors

    Autism Training for Sexual Assault Counselors

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    Created by Boston University, this resource is an online, self-delivered training designed to address the counselor’s role at the intersection of autism and sexual assault on college campuses. The free training is designed for college sexual assault counselors, but it may also be useful to community-based counselors and college instructors.
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  • Search & Snicker™: Conversations About Relationships & Sexuality

    Search & Snicker™: Conversations About Relationships & Sexuality

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    Search & Snicker™: Conversations About Relationships & Sexuality offers important tools needed to provide healthy guidance about intimate relationships to autistic adults and other neurodivergent individuals. Informed by the neurodivergent community and best practices, the guides are available as PDF downloads targeted at three distinct groups: family members, direct service providers and healthcare providers.
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  • Sex in DCity: Lessons in Healthy Relationships & Human Sexuality

    Sex in DCity: Lessons in Healthy Relationships & Human Sexuality

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    Sex in DCity: Lessons in Healthy Relationships & Human Sexuality is designed to fill the gaps that exist in providing sexual education, resources, and support for autistic adults. I AM’s educational curriculum is tailored specifically for this population and focuses on building relationships and understanding the physical aspects of sexuality. It covers topics such as communication, consent, safety, body image, healthy boundaries and more, and each topic is approached in straightforward, developmentally-appropriate, and honest ways.
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  • AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit

    AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit

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    The AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit is a comprehensive online tool designed to improve healthcare experiences for autistic adults. Focusing on care with a primary doctor, the toolkit offers practical information, worksheets, and the ability to create a personalized healthcare accommodations report to help to make healthcare visits smoother—before, during, and after appointments.
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  • Pathways to Wellness

    Pathways to Wellness

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    Pathways to Wellness is a user-friendly e-book designed to support individuals with autism, their families, and professionals in promoting healthier lifestyles. This resource offers simple, realistic strategies to improve nutrition and increase physical activity—two areas that are often challenging yet critical for long-term health and quality of life.
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  • Appointment Mentor VR

    Appointment Mentor VR

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    Appointment Mentor VR is an immersive, interactive virtual reality experience designed to help individuals on the autism spectrum build confidence and skills for navigating medical appointments. Created with adults on the autism spectrum at nonPareil Institute, this game simulates a doctor’s visit experience in a calm, repeatable environment. From scheduling an appointment by phone to checking in with the receptionist, speaking with a nurse, and talking with the doctor, users can explore and practice each step at their own pace.
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  • Brain Club® Digital Resource Library for Healthcare

    Brain Club® Digital Resource Library for Healthcare

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    The Brain Club® Digital Resource Library for Healthcare helps people understand autistic health through the stories, experiences, and expertise of autistic people. This free online collection offers recorded webinars, plain language summaries, graphics, and integrated key term explanations to make complex information accessible. Topics include autistic health outcomes and barriers to care, autistic burnout, personal stories from autistic patients, the impact of social connection and employment, systemic ableism in the medical model, and practical strategies for delivering neuroinclusive healthcare.
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These guidebooks are available for use by all those whose lives are affected by autism. In keeping with OAR’s mission, the information included in these books may be utilized for personal use, teaching, research, for IEP meetings or any other capacity in order to facilitate the dissemination of information. You may reproduce (print, make photocopies, or download) these materials without prior permission for non-commercial purposes. If used professionally, we ask that you provide proper attribution of the source in all copies. Parties interested in translating the resources may request a license agreement.

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  • A Parent’s Guide to Research

    A Parent’s Guide to Research

    Price range: $0.00 through $2.50
    Understanding a complex spectrum disorder like autism is difficult enough in a purely academic setting. Yet when parents learn of their child’s autism diagnosis, they are tasked with educating themselves about autism and the wide range of treatment options available.  Research can play a critical role in that education. That is why we created A Parent’s Guide to Research, a basic primer on autism research. 
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  • A Guide to Safety

    A Guide to Safety

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    A Guide to Safety was written with help from parents, first responders, educators, and community members, who shared their strategies and resources to address safety threats that commonly arise during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. This resource helps educate parents, caregivers, educators, first responders, and other community members about how to prevent and mitigate emergency events, safety threats that may affect their child in the future, and how to teach safety habits that will build a foundation for safety in adulthood. 
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  • Navigating the Special Education System

    Navigating the Special Education System

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    More autistic children are attending public school than ever before. Many teachers, administrators, and school support staff lack the background and training to meet the unique needs of autistic students. It falls to the parents to make sure that their child’s challenges, whether with social interactions, communication, or behavior, are addressed with research-based interventions within the school setting. To assure this, parents must have a basic understanding of special education services, their child’s rights, and their own. 
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  • A Guide for Military Families

    A Guide for Military Families

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    When a military family has an autistic child, they face all the emotions and challenges that accompany this diagnosis, compounded by the realities of military service: war, extended family separation, frequent moves, varying access to specialized healthcare, and other stressors that complicate and often work against effective treatment for autistic children. These families need help navigating these uncharted and difficult waters.
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  • Operation Autism

    Operation Autism

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    Operation Autism is a web-based resource specifically designed and created to support military families that have children with autism.
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  • A Guide for Transition to Adulthood

    A Guide for Transition to Adulthood

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    Adulthood represents a time in one’s life where there are increased levels of independence, choice, and personal control. These are all qualities that can and should be part of any autistic adult’s life. For many young autistic people and their families, the transition to adulthood is a daunting one, marked by significant changes in available services. Proper planning can ease this difficult transition, however, and ensure that all autistic individuals build the skills and establish the supports that will allow them to take advantage of all that adulthood has to offer. 
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  • A Parent’s Guide to Assessment

    A Parent’s Guide to Assessment

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    The formal assessment process can be a daunting experience for parents of children newly diagnosed with autism. The professionals who conduct assessments often rely on objective measures that use technical language around “deficit performance” or what your child cannot do. Rarely do they explain outcomes in terms that parents can use to set goals for their children. A Parent’s Guide to Assessment is intended to remove the mystery surrounding assessment and provide the tools to help parents better understand the process and utilize assessment outcomes to improve services and interventions for their children. 
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  • An Educator’s Guide to Autism

    An Educator’s Guide to Autism

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    An Educator’s Guide to Autism provides parents, teachers, and education professionals with a plan for teaching an autistic child in the general elementary classroom setting.  The heart of An Educator’s Guide to Autism is a six-step approach for a teacher preparing to educate autistic children in their classroom. The discussion of each step includes practical tips on what a teacher should look for and how to navigate the challenges that may arise. Following these steps offers the teacher the potential to create the most favorable educational environment for all learners in the classroom, including the student with autism. 
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  • An Educator’s Guide to ASD (Level 1 Supports)

    An Educator’s Guide to ASD (Level 1 Supports)

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    The revised guide serves as a primer for general education teachers to support their students who have Level 1 ASD, as introduced in DSM-5 and defined as a mild form of autism that requires support.
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  • Curriculum in a Box

    Curriculum in a Box

    Price range: $0.00 through $10.00
    This curriculum for autism includes everything teachers need to host a professional development session: two 75-minute PowerPoint training presentations, to be used together or separately, with video clips, participant handouts, activity worksheets, and scripted facilitator notes. It also includes Understanding Autism: A Guide for Secondary School Teachers, along with two guidebooks, in English and Spanish, and a quick reference sheet.
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  • Kit for Kids Classroom Set

    Kit for Kids Classroom Set

    Price range: $0.00 through $17.00
    Our Kit for Kids program is designed to teach elementary and middle school students about their autistic peers. The kit is centered around an illustrated booklet entitled What’s Up with Nick? This colorful, kid-friendly booklet tells the story about a new student, an autistic boy named Nick, through the eyes of a neurotypical peer. The story teaches children that autistic peers may think differently or need some accommodations, but all students are of equal worth and should be treated as such. 
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  • "What's up with Nick?" Booklet

    “What’s up with Nick?” Booklet

    Price range: $0.00 through $15.00
    “What’s Up with Nick?” is a colorful, kid-friendly booklet that tells the story about a new student, an autistic boy named Nick, through the eyes of a typical peer. The story teaches children that autistic students may think differently or need some accommodations, but all students are of equal worth and should be treated as such.
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  • Kit for Kids Activity Workbooks Classroom Set

    Kit for Kids Activity Workbooks Classroom Set

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    The Kit for Kids Activity Workbooks expand upon the information presented in the What’s Up with Nick? story and give students a chance to engage with the material they just learned in the lesson. There are different workbooks for students in grades K-1, 2-3, 4-5, and 6-8. They can be assigned as independent or group classwork, or as homework. Each version comes in a pack of 20 activity workbooks. 
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  • Friendship Tip Sheets Classroom Set

    Friendship Tip Sheets Classroom Set

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    The Kit for Kids Friendship Tip Sheets are designed to help non-autistic kids be understanding, supportive friends to their autistic peers. The tip sheets use engaging visuals, activities, and reflection questions to capture children’s attention and promote discussion. They cover some of the communication barriers and sensory differences that can cause misunderstandings between autistic and non-autistic kids and provide clear, actionable steps that focus on what autistic individuals want their peers to know. 
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  • Autism Tuned In

    Autism Tuned In

    Autism Tuned In is an online extension of our popular Kit for Kids program, which is designed to teach elementary and middle school students about their autistic peers. The online e-learning space not only enhances the learning experience with color and movement but is also more easily accessed and shared.
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  • Autism Tuned In: Student Rewards

    Autism Tuned In: Student Rewards

    2.50
    These rewards can be handed out to students who complete all of the online activities on the Autism Tuned In website. Each student receives one ribbon and one pencil for completing all activities. Students can write their names on the ribbons for display.  Each set comes with two (2) paper ribbons and two (2) pencils for a total of two (2) students. 
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