All posts tagged autism

In Conversation With Temple Grandin–Part Two

By | February 25, 2015 | Advocates, Authors, Educators, General, Health & Behavior | No comments

We continue here with the second half of the interview I conducted Feb. 7 with Temple Grandin onstage at the 1200-seat Paramount Theatre in Austin, also including the audience question-and-answer segment that followed our conversation that night. Read more…

Dr. Temple Grandin, author, professor, expert on autism and animal cognition

By | January 23, 2013 | Advocates, Authors, Educators, Factory Farming, Horses, Mammals, Operations | No comments

This interview with Dr. Temple Grandin was delayed because the flight she was on that morning was very late landing, which we didn’t know in the first part of the show, when we were trying to reach her, and moving elements of the show around in her absence. Once we connected, Read more…

Dr. Temple Grandin–Internationally-renowned expert on animals and autism

By | February 11, 2009 | Health & Behavior | No comments

Dr. Temple Grandin–an internationally-renowned expert on both animals and autism; she herself is autistic, and much of her work is rooted in her thesis that animals and autistic people share some fundamental traits, including that they’re considerably more sensory-based, visual thinkers than verbal ones Read more…

Dr. Temple Grandin–internationally-renowned animal expert

By | December 14, 2005 | Authors, Educators | No comments

Dr. Temple Grandin, who is autistic, an internationally-renowned animal expert, a longtime consultant in designing the most humane methods for transporting and handling livestock in meat-processing plants, a Ph.D. Associate Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and author, most recently, of “Animals In Translation: Using The Mysteries Of Autism To Decode Animal Behavior” Read more…