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Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University and a professional designer of humane livestock facilities. She is a leading expert on the humane treatment of livestock handling. Grandin has said, “I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we’ve got to do it right. We’ve got to give those animals a decent life and we’ve got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”

She also became well known after being described by the neurologist, Oliver Sacks, in the title narrative of his book, An Anthropologist on Mars, due to her diagnosis of autism. Dr. Grandin speaks on the topic of autism around the world and has also been featured on major television programs, such as ABC's Primetime Live, The Today Show, and Larry King Live. She has been the subject of articles in People magazine, Forbes, the New York Times, and Time magazine. She is also the author of several books on autism.

“A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.”

 

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”

 

“People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.”

                       

“Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.”

 

“Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.”

 

“Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.”

 

“The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.”

 

“There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.”

 

“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.”

 

“And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.”

 

“As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.”

 

“Autism is an extremely variable disorder.”

 

“Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.”

 

“You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.”

 

“Autistic people are closer to animals than normal people are.”

 

“People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.”

- Temple Grandin  (1946-)

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