Temple Grandin-Autism: A Different Way of Interpreting
Temple Grandin
Autism: A Different Way of Interpreting
Watching Temple Grandin brought me a new perspective on how to view someone with autism. She was very descriptive on how to recognize and utilize the person’s thought process in order to communicate with the individual.
Her introduction of defining autism was pretty basic. An autistic person doesn’t use verbal language to understand and communicate; they are more about sounds and visuals. However, when she started breaking down the different levels of autism and the different types, which really opened up how to understand how this person thinks. It also demonstrated to me that I can study a way a person is communicating with me, or viewing their behaviors, to be able to identify which type of thinker they are and be able to work with them, communicate with them or teach them.
She explains that autistic individuals are usually specialists. They are good at one thing and do it extremely well. It is important to identify what their specialty is and then expand on it being able to teach them different ways to utilize their specialties. She continues to explain that when teachers do not pick up on the autistic child in their classroom, and notice the lack of social interaction they have, the child gets lost and will not be able to succeed in that classroom. Temple was very grateful for her science teacher who took the time and gave her the necessary attention need to be able to expand on her specialty. She taught her to inner-act with other children with similar interests so that way she could learn social skills.
There are three types of autism classifications:
Photo Realistic Visual Thinkers – these individuals are poor at algebra
Pattern Thinkers – these individuals are good with music and math
Verbal Mind Thinkers – these individuals are poor at drawing (art)
Temple went into how she was successful with her cattle mechanisms because she was able to think like the cattle,
Autism: A Different Way of Interpreting
Watching Temple Grandin brought me a new perspective on how to view someone with autism. She was very descriptive on how to recognize and utilize the person’s thought process in order to communicate with the individual.
Her introduction of defining autism was pretty basic. An autistic person doesn’t use verbal language to understand and communicate; they are more about sounds and visuals. However, when she started breaking down the different levels of autism and the different types, which really opened up how to understand how this person thinks. It also demonstrated to me that I can study a way a person is communicating with me, or viewing their behaviors, to be able to identify which type of thinker they are and be able to work with them, communicate with them or teach them.
She explains that autistic individuals are usually specialists. They are good at one thing and do it extremely well. It is important to identify what their specialty is and then expand on it being able to teach them different ways to utilize their specialties. She continues to explain that when teachers do not pick up on the autistic child in their classroom, and notice the lack of social interaction they have, the child gets lost and will not be able to succeed in that classroom. Temple was very grateful for her science teacher who took the time and gave her the necessary attention need to be able to expand on her specialty. She taught her to inner-act with other children with similar interests so that way she could learn social skills.
There are three types of autism classifications:
Photo Realistic Visual Thinkers – these individuals are poor at algebra
Pattern Thinkers – these individuals are good with music and math
Verbal Mind Thinkers – these individuals are poor at drawing (art)
Temple went into how she was successful with her cattle mechanisms because she was able to think like the cattle,