I Feel Very Strongly That

Autism Is Part Of Who I Am.

Social Thinking Skills Must Be Directly Taught To Children And Adults With Asd. Doing So Opens Doors Of Social Understandings In All Areas Of Life.

One Of The Places Where Research Is Needed Is All The Sensory Problems. And You Get Sensory Problems Not Just With Autism, But With Dyslexia, Learning Problems, Adhd, Attention Deficit, You Know, Things Like Sound Sensitivity, Problems With Fluorescent Lighting.

Some Children May Need A Behavioral Approach, Whereas Other Children May Need A Sensory Approach.

We Breed Dogs To Be More Social Than The Wolf. There Is Very Interesting Research That Has Been Done With A Wolf And A Domestic Dog. If You Have A Tamed Wolf And You Have Him Sit In Front Of The Experimenter Or Stand In Front Of His Master And His Two Dishes, One To The Right, One To The Left – So That The Dog Or Wolf See The Food Put In The Left Hand Dish But The Owner Points To The Right – The Domesticated Will Go Where Owner Points, Whereas The The Wolf Goes Right Where He Saw The Meat Thing Put. In Other Words, In A Dog Social Cue From A Master Can Override Where He Saw The Being Placed.