Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language
18 years, 8 months ago

Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language

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Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language toggle caption Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMA/Corbis Temple Grandin, famous for convincing McDonald's to work with more humane slaughterhouses, is not a social butterfly. For Grandin, who is autistic, language isn't about making social connections, it's a tool to get information. Sponsor Message Autistic people can be isolated, she says, not only because they have difficulty making a connection with so-called "normal" people, but because normal people find it difficult to put themselves in an autistic person's shoes and see the world from their perspective. Sponsor Message There's a notion in the research community that autistic people don't have something called "theory of other mind" -- the ability to recognize that others have thoughts and feelings different from their own.

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A Conversation with Temple Grandin
19 years, 2 months ago

A Conversation with Temple Grandin

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A Conversation with Temple Grandin Animal scientist Temple Grandin says autism helps her see things as animals do. Dr. GRANDIN: Well, there's a lot, you know, there's a lot of things to animal behavior that vets need to learn about. Dr. GRANDIN: But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in …

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