Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
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.
Temple GrandinI think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.
Temple GrandinSometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
Temple GrandinI'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
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