An Anthropologist from Mars - Review
British neurologist’s Oliver Sack’s first publishes Temple Grandin’s case study in The New Yorker magazine (Sacks, 1993), and then includes in his book ‘An Anthropologist in Mars’ (Sacks, 1995). This case study offers the reader an empathetic yet compassionate insight into day to day challenges experienced with living with autism from the perspective of World renowned Autism advocate and American Professor of Animal Science, Temple Grandin PH.D. Grandin compares herself to ‘An anthropologist on Mars’, (Sack’s adopts this as his book title), an alien walking through earth unable to decipher or understand social interactions, social communications and social imaginations known as Wing’s Triad of Impairments (Wing, 1981), entities which we neuro-typicals take for granted. …show more content…
Sacks succinctly illustrates a few causes and treatments that were controversial such as; toxic parenting being a cause or such treatments as; a facilitator placing a non-verbal child’s arm should assist him/her in typing or using an electronic board to communicate. (Sacks, 1995, p. 249)
Autism is a lifelong developmental disorder which displays in various degrees of challenges thought a lifetime (NAS, 2017). Sacks views of autism evolve quite quickly as he discusses characteristics of Kanner’s autism (Kanner, 1943), with the focus of attention on ‘Asperger’s syndrome’. He delineates the differences of Asperger’s syndrome seen as high functioning autism, with some displaying savant abilities. (Sacks, 1995, p. 250). Sacks understanding of autism evolves notably with the influences of Lorna Wing’s (Wing, 1981)
British neurologist’s Oliver Sack’s first publishes Temple Grandin’s case study in The New Yorker magazine (Sacks, 1993), and then includes in his book ‘An Anthropologist in Mars’ (Sacks, 1995). This case study offers the reader an empathetic yet compassionate insight into day to day challenges experienced with living with autism from the perspective of World renowned Autism advocate and American Professor of Animal Science, Temple Grandin PH.D. Grandin compares herself to ‘An anthropologist on Mars’, (Sack’s adopts this as his book title), an alien walking through earth unable to decipher or understand social interactions, social communications and social imaginations known as Wing’s Triad of Impairments (Wing, 1981), entities which we neuro-typicals take for granted. …show more content…
Sacks succinctly illustrates a few causes and treatments that were controversial such as; toxic parenting being a cause or such treatments as; a facilitator placing a non-verbal child’s arm should assist him/her in typing or using an electronic board to communicate. (Sacks, 1995, p. 249)
Autism is a lifelong developmental disorder which displays in various degrees of challenges thought a lifetime (NAS, 2017). Sacks views of autism evolve quite quickly as he discusses characteristics of Kanner’s autism (Kanner, 1943), with the focus of attention on ‘Asperger’s syndrome’. He delineates the differences of Asperger’s syndrome seen as high functioning autism, with some displaying savant abilities. (Sacks, 1995, p. 250). Sacks understanding of autism evolves notably with the influences of Lorna Wing’s (Wing, 1981)