“One of the problems today is for a kid to get any special services in school, they have to have a label. In older children with no speech delay, the diagnosis sometimes switches back and forth between autism and ADHD. Labels such as autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder or learning disability are often applied to the same child. It is not precise like a lab test for strep throat. Over the years, the diagnostic criteria have kept changing. It now ranges from brilliant scientists, artists, and musicians to an individual who cannot dress himself or herself.
The Problem With LabelsIn 2013, the American Psychiatric Association revised the diagnostic criteria for autism. Today half the cattle in the United States are handled in facilities she has designed. When she had a new goal of becoming a scientist, she had a reason for studying. Carlock, her science teacher, was an important mentor who encouraged her interest in science. The only place she had friends was activities where there was a shared interest such as horses, electronics, or model rockets. When she was young, she was considered weird and teased and bullied in high school. HBO made an Emmy Award winning movie about her life and she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. Grandin have appeared in Time Magazine, New York Times, Discover Magazine, Forbes and USA Today. She has also appeared on National TV shows such as Larry King Live, 20/20, Sixty Minutes, Fox and Friends, and she has a 2010 TED talk.
She has been featured on NPR (National Public Radio) and a BBC Special – “The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow”. She also has a successful career consulting on both livestock handling equipment design and animal welfare. Today she is a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.
Grandin became a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior. Grandin in his best selling book Anthropologist on Mars.ĭr. Oliver Sacks wrote in the forward of Thinking in Pictures that her first book Emergence: Labeled Autistic was “unprecedented because there had never before been an inside narrative of autism.” Dr. She was mainstreamed into a normal kindergarten at age five. Her teachers also taught her how to wait and take turns when playing board games. She was fortunate to get early speech therapy. Grandin did not talk until she was three and a half years old.
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