Helping autistic children feel seen, safe, and included.
Love Beyond the Spectrum LLC is a faith-rooted company creating inclusive children’s stories and working toward meaningful community experiences that celebrate children on the autism spectrum while honoring the caregivers who love, support, and advocate for them.
Representation. Literacy. Advocacy. Belonging.
FOUNDER • AUTHOR • AUTISM ADVOCATE
Vinyarie Smith
Vinyarie Smith is a faith-based children’s author, mother of two, autism parent advocate, and founder of Love Beyond the Spectrum LLC. Inspired by her journey as an autism parent, Vinyarie transformed a painful experience into Trahmir’s Library Adventure: A Story About Being Different and Brave, a children’s book centered on inclusion, courage, and belonging.Vinyarie has shared her family’s journey with doctoral students in the University of Minnesota’s physical therapy and occupational therapy programs. She has also served as a parent panelist at St. David’s Center and contributes her lived experience through the Autism Society of Minnesota’s Black Parent Advisory Cohort.Through Love Beyond the Spectrum LLC, Vinyarie creates inclusive stories and hopes to develop meaningful community events that celebrate autistic children while honoring their caregivers. In the future, she would also like to offer workshops that help others transform their lived experiences into meaningful children’s stories.
COMING NOVEMBER 2026
Trahmir’s Library Adventure: A Story About Being Different and BraveInspired by a true story, this heartfelt children’s book follows a joyful young Black autistic child and his mother through a library experience that becomes a powerful lesson about kindness, advocacy, courage, and belonging.Representation matters. Children deserve to see characters who look like them, communicate like them, and experience the world in ways they understand.Created for children ages 4–8, the book encourages a love of reading and supports early literacy through engaging illustrations, new vocabulary, story sequencing, and conversations about feelings and inclusion.Written and illustrated by Vinyarie Smith.
HELPING LITTLE BUDDIES READ
Love Beyond the Spectrum LLC is not a nonprofit organization. Contributions are not tax-deductible.Your support helps place inclusive children’s books into the hands of little buddies and families in our community.Contributions will support book giveaways, sensory-friendly literacy experiences, family resources, and future community events that celebrate children on the autism spectrum and honor their caregivers.Every contribution helps another child feel seen, valued, and included.