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willaful
willaful rated it 12 years ago
This book gave me some serious food for thought. For those of us with autistic children, what is their future as autistic adults going to look like? This outlines the various aspects of adult life that need to be addressed, whether the adult child is what they call "more able" or whether major suppo...
rosemaryknits
rosemaryknits rated it 13 years ago
I read through this book because I adore Temple Grandin. However, as a compilation of separate articles, this book has no flow, no continuation, and is rather repetitive, as the articles were originally written as stand-alone pieces. This does not diminish my admiration for Ms. Grandin, however.I ...
scottakennedy
scottakennedy rated it 13 years ago
Essential reading regarding ADHD and the negative ways that cobbled-together diagnosis can impact a child.
suzemo
suzemo rated it 14 years ago
The title of this book "Animals Make us Human" completely misrepresents the book. I was expecting something a little more philosophical, I guess with that kind of title. The subtitle - "Creating the Best Life for Animals" modifies it a bit, and if that were the title, alone, it would have been mor...
megancsparks
megancsparks rated it 15 years ago
Oh, I love Temple Grandin. I didn't expect that I was going to. See, there's this boy - I'll call him Blake - who comes into the library with his mom every Wednesday. He gets some movies, and his mom gets the baby sign language DVDs, and he always gets a couple of science books. He waits patiently a...
rosemaryknits
rosemaryknits rated it 15 years ago
I really really enjoyed this book. However, now I think that most of my friends are Autistic, heh.
Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it 15 years ago
Grandin brings her prodigious insights to the domestic arena in the first couple of chapters of this book. I have to reconsider everything I thought I knew about my dog! She also touches on zoo animals, wildlife, and animals we eat. Her insights into slaughterhouses, and her reasons for advocating f...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 16 years ago
In this book, Grandin offers up the latest research into animal behavior, giving advice on home to make pets happier and less troubled.So, there I am, reading the section on cats in my bed, waving the cat-fishing pole about, and Mao takes some sort of crazy course-correcting jump and scratches my no...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 16 years ago
TOGS - G:AUDIO BOOKSNon FictionAnimals in TranslationTeh Blurbz : Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation speaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism, bringing with her an extraordinary message about how animals think and feel.Temple's professional training as an a...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it 16 years ago
A fascinating book for anyone interested in either animal behavior or human behavior. Temple Grandin gives us so many insightful observations on both.
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