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 GrandinWell the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other dogs. They are a real good natured. Theyโre also real calm and sometimes when working with autistic children thatโs probably more popular dog breed - now there are different ways to use service animals.
Temple GrandinI'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.
Temple GrandinI 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.
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