Books by
Kimberly Kitzerow
Practical books for parents and educators, written by an educator and mom who helped her nonverbal autistic daughter speak.
Find the Right Book for Where You Are
Start with the parent guide, explore learning and instruction through NeuroToggle®, take a deeper dive into genetic regulation with BioToggle®, or read the memoir to understand the story behind the work.
You Are Not Alone
Everything I Have Learned About Autism Since My Child’s Diagnosis, From One Parent to Another
Everything Kitzerow learned about autism, written from one parent to another for families starting out after a diagnosis.
It also includes the full protocol Kitzerow used to help her nonverbal daughter go from silence to full conversation.
What you’ll gain: A clear place to start after a diagnosis, and a plan you can begin using at home.
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NeuroToggle® Book 1: The Foundation
The Biology of Learning, Built on Neuroplasticity
Translates neuroplasticity, memory formation, and brain adaptation into practical teaching strategies.
It connects synaptogenesis, LTP and LTD, emotional regulation, movement, feedback, and cognitive flexibility to how skills are actually built, and shows why behavior-only approaches fall short when the underlying circuitry is not being developed.
What you’ll gain: A working understanding of how learning happens in the brain and why building neural circuitry changes outcomes for neurodivergent learners.
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NeuroToggle® Book 2: The System
A Structured, Neuroplasticity-Based Instructional System
Formalizes learning as encoded neural circuitry, mapping how information is built, stored, retrieved, and refined through neuroplastic processes.
It organizes learning into the five-part NeuroToggle® system (Build, Strengthen, Time, Expand, and Replace) and connects each part to how information is encoded, consolidated, retrieved, and reconsolidated.
What you’ll gain: A structured way to apply neuroscience to instruction, so skills can be built, retained, and performed more reliably.
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BioToggle®
Understanding How Genetic Regulation Drives Physiological Plasticity
Why does the body change what it makes when conditions change? Proteins do much of the body’s work, and genes provide the instructions for making them. Which genes are switched on or off depends on what the body needs at any given time.
The book explores how these toggle switches work: how the body keeps itself steady during everyday demands, and how it shifts its resources when it faces a threat. Drawing on published research in molecular biology, physiology, and systems biology, it builds understanding step by step.
What you’ll gain: An understanding of how the body regulates itself with limited resources under competing demands.
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Discovering Autism and the Comorbidities Along the BH4 Pathway
The Story of How and Why Kitzerow Made Her Discoveries
Follows Kitzerow from her daughter’s autism diagnosis through combing the research literature, building a plan to help her, and putting that plan into practice in real life.
It also follows the end of her marriage, the pressure of providing for her family while finding answers, and the public building and release of Kitzerow’s Autism and the Comorbidities Cascade, including what it was like to share it and the responses that followed.
What you’ll gain: A clear picture of how this work developed in real conditions, and what it took to move from uncertainty to a functional approach.
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Instant-download printables that turn the books into plans you can use at home and in the classroom.
NeuroToggle® The Manual
Educator Toolkit · 47-Page Printable PDF
Puts NeuroToggle® into practice with six tools: a one-page overview of neural circuit types and the Teaching and Learning Sequences, a Quick Start Guide, a Decision Guide for readiness, regulation, and strategy selection, a Skill Growth Profile for tracking progress, a Planning Worksheet, and a Behavior Replacement Worksheet.
What you’ll gain: Ready-to-use planning and progress tools for building a target skill or replacing a harmful behavior with one that meets the same need. Pairs with Books 1 and 2.
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Autism Parent Binder
34-Page Printable PDF
Organizes everything about your child in one place so another caregiver can step in: routines, traits, triggers, and a meltdown plan, nervous system response checklists, accommodations, a page for first responders, a “My Dictionary” of your child’s words, signs, and behaviors, plus medical, education, IEP, and emergency planning pages.
What you’ll gain: One binder that tells anyone caring for your child exactly what they need to know.
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