Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.

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.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

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.