Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin on How to Turn Autism Around

Mary Barbera discusses how to turn autism around for children with autism or signs of autism with Dr. Temple Grandin.
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I am so delighted to share this interview with you today. Dr. Temple Grandin wrote the foreword to my newest book Turn Autism Around: An Action Guide for Parents of Young Children with Early Signs of Autism, and I have been a fan of her work for years. When Dr. Grandin was diagnosed with autism in 1949, she was sent to a school for children with speech delays. She can still remember the careful methods that the teachers used to help her begin to hear individual sounds so that she could learn to speak.

By the time kindergarten rolled around, Dr. Grandin was enrolled in the mainstream classroom, but she struggled to learn to read. This is when her mother stepped in to teach her phonics and employ a unique method that brought her slowly into the literary world. Early intervention, led by her mother, made a phenomenal difference in Dr. Grandin’s life and she is a fierce advocate for quality education and therapy for young children with autism.

In today’s video you’ll learn:
-Techniques that Dr. Grandin’s mother and teachers implemented to help her learn to speak and read, and then integrate into a mainstream classroom.
-Why Dr. Grandin describes autism as a continuous trait, and why she classifies autism in terms of speaking abilities.
-Dr. Grandin’s greatest concern for today’s young children with autism is very similar to my own concern: the long waitlists for getting into therapy.
-Despite being nonverbal until she was four, Dr. Grandin has an incredible recall of events that happened to her before she could communicate with the outside world.

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Dr. Mary Barbera. I fell into the autism world as an autism mom in 1999 when her first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with autism. Since then, she became a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and best-selling author of The Verbal Behavior Approach. Since 2015, she’s created 3 autism online courses based on applied behavior analysis for professionals and "gung-ho" parents. Whether you’re looking for autism parenting strategies, working with development delays in children, or in search of autism help for professionals, I can encourage you to subscribe to the channel and join me on my journey. I’ll be providing weekly autism resources that you don’t want to miss.