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Temple Grandin

Biography

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the author of several bestselling books, which have sold more than a million copies. The HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.

Temple Grandin

Books by Temple Grandin

The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed
by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek - Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Temple Grandin may be the most famous person with autism, a condition that affects 1 in 88 children. Since her birth in 1947, our understanding of it has undergone a great transformation, leading to more hope than ever before that we may finally learn the causes of and treatments for autism. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the advances in neuroimaging and genetic research that link brain science to behavior.

Emergence: Labled Autistic
by Temple Grandin - Mental Health, Nonfiction