Manners Matter!

Veronica Zysk, award-winning co-author of 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, jumped headfirst into the field of Autism Spectrum Disorders in 1991 as Executive Director of the Autism Society of America. She later joined publisher Future Horizons and from 1999-2011 was the visionary and managing editor for the first national magazine on autism/Asperger's: the Autism Asperger's Digest, winner of multiple Gold awards for excellence. Today Veronica is senior director of Product Development and Intellectual Property at Think Social Publishing, working alongside internationally renowned SLP Michelle Garcia Winner, creating books, games, and materials on social-emotional learning. Veronica has worked with Temple in an editorial capacity for more than twenty-five years on Temple's regular columns in the autism magazine, Temple's book, The Way I See It , as well as with Temple and Sean Barron on Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism . Since 2005 Veronica has co-authored and/or edited more than fifteen books on autism and Asperger's,working with noted authors in the ASD world. She makes her home in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, with her two furry friends, Maja and Chai, who bring her daily doses of love, joy, and inspiration.