"yes it cleared up my yeast infections - I hav ecut huge amounts of suger out of my diet - with success and I talk about it in "the way"
"Im doing wheat free myself"
ABOUT INCLUSION IN SCHOOL
"You have to look at your particular situatin in your school - you might want to look at "unwritten rules of social relationships"
"there are some aspergers kids that get tortured in high school and may need to be taken out but - I am much more of an advocate for inclusion for elementary school kids - I want to emphasis that decision about this depend upon many unique variables with particular"
ABOUT MEDICATIONS
"the big mistake with antidepressants in the autism spectrum is too high a dose. some need only 1/4 to 1/2 the starter does - they are microresponders and you need to read the book very very carefully"
ABOUT SIBLINGS
"Find shared interests that they can enjoy together like painting pictures playing games sports any activity they both enjoy"
ABOUT DSM IV & DIAGNOSIS
"Aspergers according to dms IV is minor autism with no speech delay - it is not a seperate disorder - autism is a continuum to veryfrom mild and a little nerdy to no language and severe problems - Einstein in todays school system would prob be labeled autistic"
"According to DSM IV guidlines I would be HFA because I had speech delay"
ABOUT SPEECH DELAY
"I recommend that they read the book "How can I talk if my lips dont move. It is written by a person that is non verbal with autism - written Tito anybody working with non verbals should read that book"
ABOUT THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE LEARN
"You need to build on the childs area of strength."
"photo realistic visual thinkers like me are very good at art design drawing and graphics but I am really bad at algebra -some visual"
"the second type is the pattern thinker - or music and math mind - it is a more abstract form of visual thinking - these children may. thinkers can do geometry and trig"
"the third is the word mind - these children know huge amounts of verbal facts about their favorite subject "
ABOUT TEACHING
"Never taught in the abstract it has to be taught with specific examples"
"Mother told me to take my turn - turn taking was taught using board games -to understand the concept of turn taking I had to learn it"
"He took my interests and channeled them into motivating me to study - good teachers build on a child interests if a child likes trainsteach reading with trains math with trains - you want to use the motiviation of the fixation to motivate academics and career work"
ABOUT SOUND SENSITIVITY
"sometimes the sound sensitivity can be reduced if the child can get used to the sound on recording and the child can turn it up gradual"
"sound sensitivity - ear plug or head phones can be worn but - they must be off for half of the day to prevent the ears fromgetting more sensitive"
ABOUT TACTILE SENSITIVITY
"tactile - soft clothes that are well washed several times will be less scratchy"
ABOUT VISUAL SENSITIVITY
"two other things that help is using a laptop computer which does not flicker and try printing reading materials on pastel color papers"
"interventions- if visual some ppl find colored lenses are helpful - pale pink blue ligt brown and purple sunglasses"
"sensory probs are very variable - some have aud processing probs where difficulty hearing hard consentant sounds like D AND G"
ABOUT EARLY INTERVENTION
"keep the mind engaged"
"most imp is 20 or more hours a week of 1 to to teaching with an effective teacher. this is for very young children from 2 to 5 yrs old - not to stop at 5."
Full Transcript from the 3/28/10 Temple Grandin Show here.
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