My Advice Is: You Always Have To

Basically When It Comes To Autistic Kids And Animals There's Kind Of Three Ways That They Work, Some Of Them Are Instant Best Buddies, They Understand A Cat, They Understand A Dog - They're Best Studies With It, They Just Know How To Communicate With It. Then There's Other Kids That Begin With A Little Bit Of Fear Of The Cat Or The Dog, But Then They Begin To Like It And Then There Are Other Kids Where You Have A Sensory Problem - The Cat Meows And It Hurts Their Ears, So They Want To Stay Away From The Cat Because You Never Know When He Might Meow.

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.

One Of The Big Areas I'd Like To See A Lot More Research Done On Is The Sensory Problems, And It's Real Variable. One Kid's Got Sound Sensitivity; Another One Can't Tolerate Fluorescent Lights. I Can't Stand Scratchy Clothes.

I Believe That The Place Where An Animal Dies Is A Sacred One. There Is A Need To Bring Ritual Into The Conventional Slaughter Plants And Use As A Means To Shape People's Behavior. It Would Help Prevent People From Becoming Numbed, Callous, Or Cruel. The Ritual Could Be Something Very Simple, Such As A Moment Of Silence. In Addition To Developing Better Designs And Making Equipment To Insure The Humane Treatments Of All Animals, That Would Be My Contribution.

You Got To Get Away From Words If You Want To Understand Any Animal. It Thinks In Pictures, It Thinks In Smells, It Thinks In Touch Sensations - Little Sound Bites Like, It's A Very Detailed Memory.