The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed

full of insights into the way autistic people think and view the world. Well worth the time reading. I loved it.

An inspirational book for parents with an autistic child. I recommend this to everyone that wants to know more about autism and to understand the autistic brain.

I enjoyed this book, however did have to look up some words that I didn't know the meaning of, but well worth reading. I am going to read it again and make notes, to help me with looking after a young boy with Autism

Arrived well within the recommended delivery time frame. Received in good condition and is a very interesting and worthwhile read. Would recommend to anyone interested in this field. It aides understanding and gives you food for thought!

Very insightful, every parent should have had a read even if there is a lot of medical jargon in the book.

This is an excellent book helped me see things from my sons perspective. Very well written, I would reccomend this book trying to understand autism.

I think this is a great book.

I found it helpful, and agree that the sensory overload problem is the prime cause of the autism spectrum disorders. I hope that Temple Grandin will take this further, and includes more information on the brain. Although I disagree with him on some of his suggestions, I found his insider insights most helpful.

Me encanta Temple Grandin. Sus libros explican el autismo desde un enfoque lógico y practico.Uno de los imprescindibles si te interesa el autismo.

J'adore son ton direct, la critique des étiquettes psychopathologiques et le côté scientifique de son approche. Trois canaux de perception : visuel, auditif et visuel structuré qui est différent du kinesthesique. Sa description du cerveau est sommaire mais suffisante. Je vous le conseille vivement.

è o testemunho de uma pessoa lúcida, competente e que lutou c/ o problema de dentro dele. Perfeito. Muito Bom

This is a great read from front to back. This is the book for you if you're at all interested in the subject of autism. My favourite thing about this book is that it is firmly planted in the latest science: all of Grandin's claims and examples are well-documented with the sources listed in the back. (After you finish the book, you can spend time going through some of the sources too!) It contains very balanced and logical content and does an amazing job of revealing the course of future of study in this field. Clearly, Grandin and her co-writer Richard Panek have done their research and put a lot of effort into organizing it into something incredibly comprehensive for the average reader.Instead of focusing on the specific bounds of diagnostic labels, Grandin looks to a future where autistic children and adults are instead assessed, helped, and encouraged based on their specific strengths and weaknesses. She foresees a future where autism, as well as other neurological conditions, is diagnosed biologically through brain imaging technology which will provide better understanding of individual brains. The book contains interesting anecdotes, personal examples, and even visual representations of some of the subject matter. Best of all, it provides information about different types of thinking that applies to all humans - not just to autistics. If you hadn't already considered that even "neurotypical" people experience and process the world in vastly different ways, this book will illustrate how.I would recommend "The Autistic Brain" to everyone I know. Without being overly sensational, it presents autism in a more positive light by describing how the autistic brain works and the wide range of specialized skills a person with autism may have. It would be a great introduction for parents or teachers thinking about the educational and occupational future of both their autistic and non-autistic children.This was by far the best book I've read in the past year.

I've been avoiding Temple Grandin's books for years, all because of the title of her book,  Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism . With that book, I thought, "All autistic people can't think in pictures. Autistic people have to be like regular people, and be divided into visual, auditory, and kinesthetic people." Plus, I thought, "Even though I'm extremely visual, I couldn't hold a picture in my brain if my life depended on it. I'm not like those artists who can see pictures of what they draw before they draw it." But, I bought the book anyway, because so many people seem to have liked Temple's books.And then, in the introduction, page 3, Temple had written this: "When I wrote Thinking in Pictures in 1995, I mistakenly thought that everybody on the autism spectrum was a photorealistic visual thinker like me. When I started interviewing other people about how they recalled information, I realized I was wrong."Wow. Temple became my hero for life, and she did it by page 3. Not only did she completely address my every issue that I ever had with her writing, but she explained it in a way that I totally understood where she was coming from when she guessed that all autistic people think in pictures over a decade ago. And, later in the book, she gives an explanation for someone who thinks visually like me, but who can't hold a picture in their head. It's "pattern thinker," and I really like that term, because it really describes me. And it takes a lot of courage to say, "I was wrong." Most people can't even utter those three words, so it gave me a lot of respect for Temple Grandin. I still think that eventually Temple will find some autistic kinesthetic thinkers, too, but that's not in this book.And, this book is awesome. Temple is obsessed about finding out what about her brain and her personality differs from other people. She has offered herself up to many brain scans, and she's read thousands of technical articles about autism as research. Because of this unique combination, this book provides a unique take on autism that you won't find anywhere else, and it also explains boring, overly critical university research on autism in a friendly and uplifting way.I liked how this book recommends that we match autistic kids' abilities with activities. A lot of autistic kids are really underutilized in their strengths. Here's one way the book expresses it: "I've seen these cases--kids who are considered to have severe behavior problems at school until you give them math lessons that meet them where their brains are. Then their behavior normalizes, and they become productive and engaged--maybe even model students."It gives a lot of techniques that I've never heard of too. One was blinking fast, so that you get a bunch of pictures in your head, instead of a steady stream of information. That can help with sensitivities. Another was wearing different shades of glasses, using different colored lights, or setting the background on your computer screen to different colors, until you find the colors or the shades that best complement your brain.This is the first book that I've read from Temple, but it definitely won't be my last. I loved this book, and heartily recommend it to everyone.Pros:+A great first read on autism, or even a great twentieth book+Takes antiseptic, critical research on autism and presents it in a non-depressing way+A great narrative about Temple GRandin's life+Has good information on what you can try to help with autism sensitiviesCons:-Like all books currently on autism, this is probably incomplete Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism