Temple Grandin Quotes - Page 8

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• There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Labels, Range

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• Cats are great with clicker training. There's a great video you can get called "Clicker Magic". There's a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course - it's all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Motivation, Cat

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I like to figure things out and solve problems.

  Temple Grandin

  Problem, Figures, Solve

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Cat, Doe

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Teaching, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for hte for the dogs and take each dog out for 45 minutes each day and spend quality time with the person - that would help reduce the stress and in fact, one of my students did a study on that.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Stress, Volunteer

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• We found if you took the dog out for 45 minutes a day and worked with it that the solitary stress hormone, cortisol, went down. But then it went right back up again because they didn't keep doing it.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Stress, Minutes

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Kids, Animal

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Littles, Kitties

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, People, Autistic

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I'm pure geek, pure logic.

  Temple Grandin

  Logic, Geek, Pure

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

  Temple Grandin

  Numbers, Adults, Prozac

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• I try to return my calls but I get inundated with emails and I can't answer them all. So often, I have to refer to them my webpage and the frequently asked questions or refer them to the books. But if they take the time to call me, I try to call back. You know, I am really busy, but just happened to have an hour in the hotel room and had some time before I have to meet some people about 20 minutes.

  Temple Grandin

  Book, People, Trying

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.

  Temple Grandin

  Memories, Thinking, Animal

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I am a big believer in early intervention.

  Temple Grandin

  Bigs, Believer, Intervention

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Kids, Years

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Different, Way

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism, but with dyslexia, learning problems, ADHD, attention deficit, you know, things like sound sensitivity, problems with fluorescent lighting.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Sound, Attention

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were in the computer industry and they just taught the kids programming at, you know, age eight and nine and they just went on into the industry with their parents.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Successful, Eight

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Autism, Valleys

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Autism, Suffering

  Temple Grandin (2008). “Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism”, p.217, Vintage

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• I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.

  Temple Grandin

  Powerful, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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