Overview
In this innovative book, Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the REAL issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful do's and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her insider perspective and a great deal of research. These are just some of the specific topics Temple delves into: How and Why People with Autism Think DifferentlyEconomical Early Intervention Programs that WorkHow Sensory Sensitivities Affect LearningBehaviors Caused by a Disability vs. Just Bad BehaviorsTeaching People with Autism to Live in an Unpredictable WorldAlternative Medicine vs. Conventional MedicineEmployment Ideas for Adults with AutismThis revised and expanded edition contains revisions based on the most current autism research, as well as 14 additional articles including: The Role of Genetics and Environmental Factors in Causing AutismUnderstanding the Mind of a Nonverbal Person with AutismFinding Mentors and Appropriate CollegesAnd many more!
Full Product Details
Author: Dr Temple Grandin, Speaker, PH.D. (Colorado State University Colorado State University, USA Colorado State University Colorado State University, USA)
Publisher: Future Horizons
Imprint: Future Horizons
ISBN: 9781322474410
ISBN 10: 1322474419
Publication Date: 01 January 2012
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Format: Electronic book text
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This book is insightful, helpful, and hopeful--just like the woman who wrote it! It is a 'how-to' guide that I am confident will leave any reader feeling both informed and inspired. --Emily Gerson Saines, Executive Producer of the Emmy award-winning HBO movie Temple Grandin Every school, large or small, with the responsibility of educating children with autism or Asperger's needs the guidance this book offers. . . . every parent will find within these pages golden nuggets of advice, encouragement, and hope to fuel their day-to-day journey through their child's autism. . . . The wisdom she offers through this book and its personal reflections on autism will, I'm sure, ring true for many more decades to come. --Ruth Christ Sullivan, first elected president of the Autism Society of America
Author Information
As a child, Temple Grandin could not speak. Her silent existence was broken only by rhythmic rocking and occasional fits of screaming and thrashing. Temple's many caregivers eventually helped her contradict her doctors' pessimistic predictions and go on to become one of the autism community's most beloved success stories. Temple Grandin, PhD, is a popular international lecturer on autism and the author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic, Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships, Animals Make Us Human, and The Way I See It. One of the world's leading experts in livestock facility design, over half of the cattle in North America are handled in facilities designed by her. She credits her visual thinking and her systemizing mind, both characteristics of autism, for her ability to be the woman who thinks like a cow. Now the subject of the acclaimed 2010 HBO movie based on her life, and recently named a hero of 2010 in Time magazine's list of the top 100 most influential people in the world, Temple continues to be an inspiration and role model to millions.
