Autism

READING REPORT

Student’s Name | : | Daniel Olivera |
Teacher’s Name | : | Patricia Mancilla |
Course | : | Intermediate 7 | Time | : | July 16th, 2012 |

Temple Grandin on a New Approachfor Thinking About Thinking

Summary (150 to 300 words)
The author, who was diagnosed with autism when she was a child, used to assume that everybody thought as she did, in photorealistic pictures.When she thinks about something, she sees different serial images. Then, she had a mind-expanding experience when she found out that other people had a different way to think.Because of the autism shehas great skills as difficulties, but, she has taken advance of her skills, specially of thinking in pictures, because she can pre-visualize projects in her mind. She has been using this skill fordesigning livestock facilities for cattle.Autism has ranges from very severe to mild, where we can find highly intelligent people with specialized talents. After she wrote her book, she learned thatthere are three types of thinking styles that are common in autist people: visual thinking, pattern thinking and word thinking.A person with pattern thinking usually works very well with maths, but hadproblems with readings. In the other hand, persons who have word thinking will have a huge memory, but they will be poor at drawing.Temple Grandin thinks that different kinds of minds should worktogether, complementing themselves. An example is the last accident of the Japanese Fukushima nuclear reactors designed by pattern thinkers. If a visual thinker had helped, he would pre visualized manykinds of probable accidents there. So they would prevent a disaster.She used to think that people wasn’t able to see things that were obvious to her because of their stupidity. Now she realizes it wasnot stupidity, it is just another way to thinking. |

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