Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

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

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

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.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.