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" When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior. "

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" Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems. "

Temple Grandin

School

Children

Problems

" As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. "

" I like to figure things out and solve problems. "

" I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. "

" Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I was 3, I had none at all. "

" I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social. "

" I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. "

" I was fascinated with optical illusions. "

" Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation. "

" I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants. "

" If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple. "

" Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies. "

Temple Grandin

Way

Research

" I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. "

" Autism is part of who I am. "

" It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. "

" I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. "

" The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior. "

" Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. "

" I am a big believer in early intervention. "

Temple Grandin

Big

Intervention

" A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. "

" And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. "

" Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices. "

Temple Grandin

Children

Problems

" I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream. "

" I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism. "

" What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world. "

Temple Grandin

World

Research

" It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school. "

" Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs. "

" We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world. "

" Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. "

" I'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. "