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You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out. -- Temple Grandin
Mom worked with autistic children. -- Isabel Lucas
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. -- Temple Grandin
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. -- Temple Grandin
Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen. -- Tisha Campbell-Martin
Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices. -- Temple Grandin
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. -- Daniel H. Wilson
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years. -- Jenny McCarthy
It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing. -- Temple Grandin
Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief. -- Melanie Roach
Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child. -- Stuart Duncan
We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists. -- Dan Marino
It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child. -- Jenny McCarthy
Vaccination programs were instituted in the late 1930s, and the first handful of autistic babies were noted in the early 1940s. When vaccination programs were expanded after the war, the number of autistic children increased greatly. -- Harris L Coulter
There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts. -- Manny Alvarez
I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I was 3, I had none at all. -- Temple Grandin
It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. -- Temple Grandin

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