Skills Quotes by Temple Grandin

9 Skills quotes by Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin’s nine concise observations on skills reveal her unique blend of scientific insight and practical know‑how. The collection serves as a quick window into how she translates expertise into action.

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Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all…

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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

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I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not…

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There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire…

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The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous…

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Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all…

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Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some…

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My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And,…

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By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going…

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My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against…

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Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get…

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Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are…

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Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

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Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be…

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Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

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I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

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People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

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There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They…

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“There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth”

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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…

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People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

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It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed…

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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…

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Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other…

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