What Dolphin Training Taught Me About Autism | Sara Childers | TEDxFSCJ

Sara Childers is on the autism spectrum and an aspiring marine mammal veterinarian. She has worked extensively with dolphins already and believe that some of the training methods that we use with them would be very beneficial to those on the autism spectrum. Autism is becoming more and more popular with each passing year. However, mass media only tends to show the negative aspects of the disability, tending to highlight incidences of bullying or mass murder.
What people don't realize is that those incidences are only account for a very small fraction of those on
the spectrum and that the vast majority of us lead healthy, productive lives.

Sara Childers has over ten years of small animal, large animal, exotic animal, and marine mammal husbandry experience, which she started acquiring at nine years old. She aspires to start at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2016 to obtain her doctorate of veterinary medicine degree and certi cate in aquatic animal health, pending her acceptance into the program. Sara is a pre-veterinarian student at the Florida State College at Jacksonville with a concentration in biology.Sara is on the autism spectrum, an
advocate for fellow people with autism, and the founding president of the Spectrum of Success, Florida State College at Jacksonville’s first club devoted to helping those on the autism spectrum excel in college, learn the skills they need for life, and jobs, and be comfortable on campus.
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