Temple Grandin Autism Case Study

There is a study that done by Harvard students in which they observed pregnant women who were exposed to high levels of pollution. The effect that the children that were born were exposed to getting autism. Autism is an disorder that can affect brain development, cause abnormals behavior in a social environment, and cause speech impairments. Pollution also causes a lot of problems within the body such as heart disease, lung cancer, and asthma. Raising awareness for both of these problems can be beneficial because there will be more campaigns done to prevent things happening. Autism is a complex disorder that can effect the following: brain development, social interactions among people, and speech. People diagnosed with autism may have …show more content…
Temple Grandin was diagnosed with Autism at the age of two. However, Temple Grandin is the perfect example of someone with Autism that became successful in life. Diagnosed with Autism at an early age made it hard for her to interact with other people. It would often times make her feel unloved and unwelcomed. Although she was never good with school such as basic reading and math, she always excelled in science. She would also be made fun of by her peers because of her disorder. During her summers, she would spend most of her time trying to help her uncle and aunt with their farm animals. Through working at the farm she would gain a sense of love and welcome. Temple would work hard to help the farm animals but her uncle and aunt even saw her as "weird". Even her mother would have a hard time trying to raise her. Her mother often felt that it was her fault because she did not give enough love to Temple. During her high school years, one of Temple's science teachers would guide her through and be a mentor for her. That science teacher would be the one to instill a good foundation that she would use later on in her life. The will to never give …show more content…
The methods done previously were extremely cost inefficient and done in a way that would make the animals uncomfortable. Temple would find new and efficient ways to make sure that the animals were both comfortable and pampered. This was all done at small price. There were a lot of people that thought that her methods were inefficient and expensive. They thought that it would make people lose their jobs. Because of this, she would get made of or have stuff thrown at her when she would try to research on how slaughterhouse worked. When Temple was given her chance to design for the slaughterhouse, she not only improved it by making things process faster but also made sure that the animals were comfortable. In doing so, the meat quality when they were slaughtered were significantly much better. Her works were so significant that she began to garner fame. She would appear on television doing interviews with many