Community Network
The Gray Center has worked for many years to connect area businesses and organizations with families and individuals who need their services. By working together, we can help everyone to access the variety of valuable services they need in order to be successful!
Young Adult Network
The Gray Center Young Adult Network (with meetings in Grand Rapids and Zeeland) is open to individuals high school aged and older. You do not need to have a diagnosis in order to attend these meetings. You (and a friend) can receive and provide valuable information and support from the other members and leaders whether or not you have been identified as being on the autism spectrum. We encourage high school and college students to join us!
SUN News
Each week our Executive Director, Laurel Falvo, writes an article about social understanding and/or autism which is distributed free-of-charge via email to everyone who has subscribed to The SUN News.
What Are Social Stories™?
The Gray Center is the Official Home of Carol Gray and Social Stories. Look here for samples and instructions for creating and using this valuable educational tool to promote social understanding and social effectiveness. Carol Gray's newest "10th Anniversary Edition" Social Story book has been awarded the ASA literary work of the year for 2010!
News
Special thanks to our community and the Keesee family for helping to raise $2000 to support Gray Center programs and services in the 5K run/walk for autism awareness on Saturday, August 7
CONTESTS provide opportunities to win prizes each month
Gray Center offers Coaching and Consulting Services
Find additional resources services in our COMMUNITY NETWORK (West Michigan) listing
Featured Resources
NOW AVAILABLE!
Why Do They Do That? Answers to Questions You Might Have About People with Autism and Asperger Syndrome...and Tips You Can Use to Help Them! This 20-minute DVD, by Laurel Falvo, helps school-aged children, adolescents, and adults better understand people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and provides basic tips they can use to interact more effectively with them. Available now for only $19.95! Click here to purchase.
More Than a Sum of Diagnostic Differences: A Positive Perspective on Autism and Asperger Syndrome
This new book, by Laurel Falvo, is a helpful starting point for parents, grandparents, siblings, teachers, parapros, and even high school or college students writing a paper on autism or wanting to understand someone better. This easy-to-read resource looks at what autism is, how we can view it in a positive light, and even the debate surrounding a search for a cure. Click here to purchase for only $12.95!
ALSO AVAILABLE: The New Social Stories Book: 10th Anniversary Edition
Purchase this great new full-color resource by Carol Gray, for only $34.95. It includes 150 favorite Social Stories(TM), AND a CD to enable you to revise and print the Stories for your audience, AND additional 
information about writing your own Social Stories(TM)!
