Speech Therapy Related Reading List

I love to read, and I love when books relate to our field in some way.  I've been compiling a list over time of books that are somehow related to speech therapy, fictional or non-fiction.  Here's the list I have so far.

ALS:

•  More Love, Less Fear: A Memoir by Robert and Theresa Lee

Alzheimer's:

• On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's by Greg O'Brien 
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Auditory Processing

• Like Sound Through Water by Karen Foli

Augmentative/Alternative Communication:

• Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
• Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern
• Schuyler's Monster by Robert Rummel-Hudson
• Typed Words, Loud Voices by Amy Sequenzia and Elizabeth Grace

Autism/Asperger's:

• A Friend Like Ben by Julia Romp
• Carly's Voice by Arthur Fleischmann
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult
• How Can I Talk if My Lips Don't Move? by Tito Mukhopadhyay
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
• Love Anthony by Lisa Genova 
• Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
• NeuroTribes by Steve Silerman 
• Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams
• Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams
• The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin 
• The Boy Who Loved Windows by Patricia Stacey
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
• The Rosie Effect  by Graeme Simsion
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed by Jeannie Davide-Rivera
• Uniquely Human by Barry Prizant

Down syndrome:

• An Uncomplicated Life by Paul Daugherty
• Jewel by Bret Lott
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Fluency:

• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• Out with It by Katherine Preston
• Paperboy by Vince Vawter
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd 
• The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Hearing Loss:

• A Man Without Words by Susan Schaller
• Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
• Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
• Train Go Sorry by Leah Cohen

Huntington's Disease:

• Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
• Life Interrupted by Katie Jackson

Language

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

SLPs as Main Characters:

• Deadly Communications by Lillian Duncan
• Speak of the Devil by Karla Jay
• Speaking in Tungs by Karla Jay

Stroke:

• Don't Leave Me This Way: Or When I Get Back On My Feet You'll Be Sorry by Julia Fox Garrison 
• One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
• Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
• The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Traumatic Brain Injury:

• Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
• He Never Liked Cake by Janna Leyde
• Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
• Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out by Claudia L. Osborn
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean
• The Vow by Kim Carpenter and Krickitt Carpenter
• Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury by Cathy Crimmins

Other:

• Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan 
• Far From the Tree:Parents, Children, and the Search from Identity by Andrew Solomon
• Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius 
• Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand by Anne-Dauphine Julliand
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

What are your favorites?