Temple Grandin Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Google, Brain

• If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Unique, Brain

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

• Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

  Temple Grandin

  Running, Reality, College

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.

  Temple Grandin

  Memories, Thinking, Animal

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.

  Temple Grandin

  Two, Stressed, Want

• To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Thinking, Language

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

  Temple Grandin

  Keys, Google, Mind

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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