Haddon's novel has been chosen as the "common text" that all incoming 2005 first-year students at Seton Hall University (NJ) are to read. The following materials are to assist teachers and students in exploring The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
The Internet has many, many, many sites about autism. I have included some sites below that I return to for basic information; these contain additional links to other sites. I included the DDDC site for a sense of a school for children with disabilities such as Christopher's. I've also included some links to online articles on and interviews with Haddon, as well as a brief list of books by ASD (autism spectrum disorder) individuals and by parents and professionals.
There are many, many books about autism, as you'll find in looking on Amazon.com; they range from "what to do if your child has autism" type of books for parents to memoirs by parents and autistic persons to (like Haddon's novel) fiction in which a character has autism. I refer to books and other online sites about autism on my blog, My Son Has Autism . (The My Thoughts blog is by a teenager with AS.) Please don't hesitate to contact me (via my website or email me) about autism, Haddon's novel, and any related concerns--I am always interested in knowing what you think.
Sincerely,
Kristina Chew

Some websites
Information on autism and Asperger Syndrome
NJCOSAC(New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community
National Autism Research Centre on "What is Autism? What is Asperger Syndrome?"
Autism Society of America
National Alliance for Autism Research
Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center (an NJ autism school)

Haddon's Curious Incident
B is for bestseller (from The Guardian)
Mark Haddon Q & A
Review by an 18-year-old with Asperger's
Review with links to interviews with Haddon
Alterity and Autism: Mark Haddon's Curious Incident in the Neurological Spectrum by James Berger (Hofstra Univ)
Swindon (UK) Borough Council

Other Writing on Autism by Autistic Persons
Temple Grandin's Emergence (1986) and Thinking in Pictures (1995)
Birger Sellin's I Don't Want to be Inside Me Anymore: Messages from an Autistic Mind (1995)
Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay's The Mind Tree (2003)
Dawn Prince-Hughes's Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism (2004)
Dawn Prince-Hughes's Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism (2002)

Other Writing on Autism (books)
Grandin, Temple. Thinking in Pictures: And Reports From My Life With Autism. New York: Vintage Books. 1995.
Koegel, Lynn Kern and Claire LaZebnik. Overcoming Autism: Find the Answers, Strategies and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life. New York: Viking, 2004.
Maurice, Catherine. Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph Over Autism. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993.
Park, Clara Claiborne Park. Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001.

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