You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out. Temple Grandin More Quotes by Temple Grandin More Quotes From Temple Grandin In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have bred a social in tune animal, that’s what a dog is. That’s why they got so much trouble with separation anxiety – you leave them home alone and they’re chewing up the house and stuff. A lot of dogs don’t handle being home alone very well. Temple Grandin doghomeanimal We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf and a domestic dog. If you have a tamed wolf and you have him sit in front of the experimenter or stand in front of his master and his two dishes, one to the right, one to the left – so that the dog or wolf see the food put in the left hand dish but the owner points to the right – the domesticated will go where owner points, whereas the the wolf goes right where he saw the meat thing put. In other words, in a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. Temple Grandin donedoginteresting The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social. Temple Grandin trainingcatdog 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. Temple Grandin autismdrugblood Just think about it yourself; you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door. Temple Grandin catdoorsthinking Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. Temple Grandin knackteacherchildren It [cats going outside the litter box] might have something to do with - you know, I am just thinking that if I am the cat, when I'm pooping, you know, I've got to strain a little bit more and maybe that affects how the kitty litter feels on my paws. I'd try a different sub straight, or something like that - make sure it's not slippery. Temple Grandin cattryingthinking We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats. Temple Grandin auntcatkids Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period. Temple Grandin strangecatpeople here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does. Temple Grandin catdogdoe You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend. Temple Grandin catpeoplethinking You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age. Temple Grandin catagemean You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens. Temple Grandin barnscatneeds The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior. Temple Grandin machinesrelaxmay I 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 Grandin horsecatdog If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed. Temple Grandin kittiescatlittles 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 Grandin autismskillskids We found if you took the dog out for 45 minutes a day and worked with it that the solitary stress hormone, cortisol, went down. But then it went right back up again because they didn't keep doing it. Temple Grandin minutesstressdog One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for hte for the dogs and take each dog out for 45 minutes each day and spend quality time with the person - that would help reduce the stress and in fact, one of my students did a study on that. Temple Grandin volunteerstressdog I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. Temple Grandin intellectsatisfaction
