The world needs all kinds of minds. Temple starts by explaining the different realms of the autism spectrum. She is even convinced that if Einstein, Tesla, and even Mozart would be diagnosed with autism if they were born in today’s day in age. With autism you have to get away from verbal language; Temple herself thinks in picture not in language. The normal brain ignores the details and schools are taking out the hands on classes (ie art and shop classes). With her work with cattle, she noticed things that others looked over. She would actually get down into the chutes to see what they saw, and figured out that small things could make them uneasy and restless. She thinks in pictures, it is as though she has a constant series of photos running through her head resulting in an idea that her mind was constantly play movies. She didn’t realize that others didn’t think like her and she sees specific photos of different items. Visual thinking helped her with the cattle handling business, and her success came from the fact that she could “test-run” each idea of a machine in her head and can predict how it will work and/or how well it will work.
She goes on to explain that it must be hard for children these days with autism. She had to learn at an early age that because of her lack of social communication, she had to be able to sell her work and not necessarily herself. When kids get into 3rd and 4th grade you will see what kind of thinker they are. Not all children with autism are visual thinkers. The autistic mind is a “specialist mind”; the fact that these kids are really good at one thing and bad at others. An example of a different mind is a “pattern thinker” these are the detailed thinkers and the individuals that can become your next generation’s engineers or computer scientists (primarily music and math minds).
As asked on the exam, what is the correlation between autism and sensory issues? Temple was nervous to have the earpiece and microphone attached to her, so she came into the studio quite a bit earlier so she could get used to the gadget. Some children can be sensitive to certain types of lights and other can be bothered by loud noises. Animals are sensory-based thinkers as well, just like some autistic spectrums, for example dogs use their sense of smell to know who has been at their fire hydrant and how long ago or if they are friend or foe or if it is a possibility the dog would want to mate with the other. There is a ton of information they pick up with their nose that individuals that aren’t sensory thinkers could never do.
Her talk was so inspiring because even though she spoke about all her difficulties and flaws, she as seemed to get over them all and in front of a large crowd explaining her story and those of children with autism while making the whole crowd laugh. If she still thinks she isn’t a good communicator, she might have gone into the cattle chute one too many times because that isn’t the case at all. The most important things she talked about is the different realms of autism and the different types of thinkers. These students are gifted but their gifts will go to waste if we don’t emphasize on their strengths and their way of thinking. She was awful in one area of math and she took that course and didn’t learn or do well, when she should have been taking a different math class that she would have been better in. The school systems need to pay close attention to students and their successful subjects in order for these successful students to do innovative things in the generations to come.
She goes on to explain that it must be hard for children these days with autism. She had to learn at an early age that because of her lack of social communication, she had to be able to sell her work and not necessarily herself. When kids get into 3rd and 4th grade you will see what kind of thinker they are. Not all children with autism are visual thinkers. The autistic mind is a “specialist mind”; the fact that these kids are really good at one thing and bad at others. An example of a different mind is a “pattern thinker” these are the detailed thinkers and the individuals that can become your next generation’s engineers or computer scientists (primarily music and math minds).
As asked on the exam, what is the correlation between autism and sensory issues? Temple was nervous to have the earpiece and microphone attached to her, so she came into the studio quite a bit earlier so she could get used to the gadget. Some children can be sensitive to certain types of lights and other can be bothered by loud noises. Animals are sensory-based thinkers as well, just like some autistic spectrums, for example dogs use their sense of smell to know who has been at their fire hydrant and how long ago or if they are friend or foe or if it is a possibility the dog would want to mate with the other. There is a ton of information they pick up with their nose that individuals that aren’t sensory thinkers could never do.
Her talk was so inspiring because even though she spoke about all her difficulties and flaws, she as seemed to get over them all and in front of a large crowd explaining her story and those of children with autism while making the whole crowd laugh. If she still thinks she isn’t a good communicator, she might have gone into the cattle chute one too many times because that isn’t the case at all. The most important things she talked about is the different realms of autism and the different types of thinkers. These students are gifted but their gifts will go to waste if we don’t emphasize on their strengths and their way of thinking. She was awful in one area of math and she took that course and didn’t learn or do well, when she should have been taking a different math class that she would have been better in. The school systems need to pay close attention to students and their successful subjects in order for these successful students to do innovative things in the generations to come.