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Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and has written numerous books on autism, including the seminal Thinking in Pictures. HBO made an Emmy Award–winning movie about her life and she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Thinking in Pictures
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition

Books

Thinking in Pictures
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Temple Grandin’s Visual Thinking

A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. In Visual Thinking, she proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.   One What Is Visual Thinking? When I

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Books for Autism Acceptance Month

For Autism Acceptance Month, we are sharing books that give the history of understanding autism and the personal stories of those who are autistic.   Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism In short, powerful chapters, Naoki Higashida explores school memories, family relationships, the exhilaration of

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