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The Way I See It: A Personal Look At Autism And Asperger's (2008), ISBN 9781932565720; Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best life for Animals (with Catherine Johnson, 2009), ISBN 978-0-15-101489-7; Improving animal welfare: a practical approach (2010). ISBN 978-1-84593-541-2, CABI, UK
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior is a 2005 book by Temple Grandin and co-written by Catherine Johnson. Animals in Translation explores the similarity between animals and people with autism, a concept that was originally touched upon in Grandin's 1995 book Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism.
Temple Grandin is a 2010 American biographical drama television film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, an autistic woman whose innovations revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. It is based on Grandin's memoirs Emergence and Thinking in Pictures.
She says people do not make this connection because the study of autism and the study of animal behavior are parallel disciplines involving different individuals. [49] Despite these similarities, the degree to which autistic individuals can be said to think like animals remains undetermined; non-human animals, as well as humans, have evolved ...
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Visual thinking has been described as seeing words as a series of pictures. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is common in approximately 60–65% of the general population. [ 1 ] " Real picture thinkers", those who use visual thinking almost to the exclusion of other kinds of thinking, make up a smaller percentage of the population.
Her hypothesis is that autistic children actually perceive details better than non-autistic people, [2] [3] but "cannot see the wood for the trees." The weak central coherence theory attempts to explain how some autistic people can show remarkable ability in subjects like mathematics and engineering , yet have trouble with language skills and ...
The autistic person then creates an emotional bridge with the animal by grooming and touching it. [42] Sessions on foot are used to work on cognition , attention and social skills. [ 6 ] Sandrine Willems recounts having witnessed a case where an autistic child unable to wash himself learned to do so, presumably by grooming his horse during the ...