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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.

In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.

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The author describes her life with autism and how she has used her strong visual sensibility to cope with it.
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About the Author

Temple Grandin has a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois, and has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States, and many in other countries. She is currently an associate professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University and a frequent lecturer at autism meetings throughout the country. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword by Oliver Sacks

1. Thinking in Pictures: Autism and Visual Thought

2. The Great Continuum: Diagnosing Autism

3. The Squeeze Machine: Sensory Problems in Autism

4. Learning Empathy: Emotion and Autism

5. The Ways of the World: Developing Autistic Talent

6. Believer in Biochemistry: Medications and New Treatments

7. Dating Data: Autism and Relationships

8. A Cow's Eye View: Connecting with Animals

9. Artists and Accountants: An Understanding of Animal Thought

10. Einstein's Second Cousin: The Link Between Autism and Genius

11. Stairway to Heaven: Religion and Belief

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780307548030
Subtitle:
And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Creator:
Temple Grandin
Author:
Grandin, Temple
Author:
Temple Grandin
Subject:
Art : General
Subject:
Biography & Autobiography : General
Subject:
Psychology : General
Subject:
Social Scientists & Psychologists
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Autism
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Autistic Disorder
Subject:
Grandin, Temple
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Psychopathology - Autism
Subject:
Specific Groups - General
Subject:
General Biography
Subject:
Biography - General
Subject:
Child Psychology-Autism
Subject:
Psychology-Autism
Subject:
main_subject
Subject:
all_subjects
Publication Date:
20060110
Binding:
ELECTRONIC
Language:
English
Pages:
270
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