Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin suffers from a natural disability called

• ADHD

• Animal Husbandry

• ADD

• Autism

What did the doctor suggest her mother do with this diagnosis?

• he gave no suggestions

• ignore her and she'll get better

• institutionalize her

• send her away to a boarding school

How does Temple remember things?

• just like how every normal human does

• memorization

• by creating pictures in her mind

• she writes everything down

Why did Temple's Autism make school and social life hard?

• She got teased by her peers and had trouble with social interactions.

• She liked to hit people who didn't listen.

• She was mad at her mom for sending her away to school.

• She missed her Dad.

What claim does Temple make in paragraphs 1-4 of her Autobiography:

• I got into fights in school because kids teased me.

• They called me tape recorder because I stored a lot of phrases in my memory.

• Autism made school and social life hard, but it made animals easy.

• There were a few conversations that I liked to have, so that amplified the effect.

What claims does Temple make in paragraphs 5-9 of her Autobiography:

• They had emotional problems because in order to save money the headmaster was buying cheap horses.

• Whenever you tried to mount beauty, he kicked and bit.

• The school had nine horses altogether, and two of them couldn't be ridden at all.

• They were pretty, their legs were fine, but emotionally they were a mess.

What claims did Temple make in paragraphs 13-15 of her Autobiography:

• I was dedicated to keeping the barn clean and making sure horses were groomed.

• I spent every spare moment working the barns.

• Animals kept me going.

• People and animals are supposed to be together.

What happened when the cattle were put into the cattle dip during the movie?

• the cattle wouldn't go into the squeeze chute

• the cattle calmed down

• the cattle would go berserk

• Temple would get upset

Temple was expelled from school for this reason -

• Absent too many times

• Hitting a student

• Yelling in class too many times

• Setting a room in the school on fire

Read the list of sentences from the article:

I don’t have the ability to process abstract thought the way that you do.

Here’s how my brain works: It’s like the search engine Google for images.

My mother told me that you don’t hit other kids because you would not like it if they hit you.

But if she said that being nice meant delivering daffodils to a next-door neighbor, that I could understand.

What MAIN ideas does this evidence support?

• Grandin wants to help others who have autism communicate better; she had to learn about abstract ideas by having examples presented to her.

• Grandin wants to help others who have autism communicate better; she often got into trouble because she could not think abstractly.

• Grandin thinks differently than other people because she has autism; she had to learn about abstract ideas by having examples presented to her.

• Grandin thinks differently than other people because she has autism; she often got into trouble because she could not think abstractly.