Edutopia – Youki Terada
“When Temple Grandin—a pioneer in the field of animal behavior who also has autism—worked on a farm milking cows, she had difficulty remembering each step in the process. No matter how many times she was shown how to do it, the information wouldn’t stay straight in her head. “I absolutely cannot remember a sequence of instructions,” she explains. Despite being a brilliant engineer with incredible spatial intelligence—she could mentally picture a complex device, see each individual part in action, and disassemble it in her head—she almost lost her job because she failed at far simpler duties. Eventually, she taped a checklist to the wall that outlined each step in the process, saving herself from getting fired.” (more)