Temple Grandin: Understanding Autism.

Click here to watch the CBS news piece with Temple Grandin.

 

America’s cheese geeks hear from Grandin.

Temple Grandin, Colorado State University’s world-renown animal welfare researcher, spoke about her career and then spent 30 minutes answering questions from a curious crowd trying to discover where they stand.

Throughout her speech and answers, Grandin told the crowd she had no issues with foods that used genetically modified organisms, milk with rBST and suggested there was no real advantage to organic foods. She did note, however, that both genetics and management work together to create a humane environment.

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Temple Grandin wins national Award for Publication Excellence!

“These awards demonstrate the professionalism and expertise of the communications team at Colorado State as well as the impact our faculty are having around the globe,” said Tom Milligan, vice president for External Relations at Colorado State. “While it is great to win these awards and we’re proud of the work that led to them, we’re even more proud to work with people like Temple Grandin and June Medford and to share their amazing stories.”

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Temple Grandin is a woman of her word!

When Temple Grandin gives her word, she keeps it. Even if it means missing the luncheon where she was to receive the Bonfils-Stanton Award for Science and Medicine.

Grandin has been a professor of animal science at CSU for the past 22 years and had to miss the Bonfils-Stanton festivities because she had promised to give a commencement speech at a school in Canada the same day.

Learn more about the unique individuals that were honored!

 

How to think about thinking . . .

When I was young, I assumed that everybody thought in photo-realistic pictures the way I do. When I think about a church steeple, I see many specific steeples in my imagination. They pop into my mind like a series of slides projected on a screen. My concept of a church steeple is based on putting many examples in a file in my brain labeled “church steeples.” It was a mind-expanding experience for me to learn that other people process information in a different way.

As a person with autism, I have the typical profile of an area of great skill and an area of difficulty. Algebra was impossible because there was nothing to visualize, but I excelled at art. Thinking in pictures has been a great asset in my business of designing livestock facilities for cattle. I can visualize projects in my mind before they are built. I observed that cattle often refused to walk over shadows, and they were spooked by sparkling reflections or shiny metal on wet floors. These things were obvious to me, but many previous designers had failed to see them.

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Q & A with Temple Grandin Sells out!

On June 21st 2012, Ambitious about Autism hosted the UK premiere of the HBO film Temple Grandin. Temple herself attended the screening and took part in a Q & A, chaired by John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons.

The screening, which took place at the May Fair Hotel in London, had sold out weeks in advance and Temple answered questions from the audience for over an hour before staying to sign books.

Listen to the Q & A right here!

 

Temple says "Cheeeese"

The American Cheese Society (ACS) is pleased to welcome Dr. Temple Grandin as the keynote speaker on Thursday, August 2, at its 29th Annual Conference, the “Cheese Rally in Raleigh,” held at the Raleigh Convention Center from Wednesday, Aug. 1, through Saturday, Aug. 4.

The educational conference will end with the popular Festival of Cheese that features 1,700 American cheeses available to sample and purchase, open to the public on Saturday, August 4.

Named one of Time magazine’s "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2010, Grandin is a renowned professor, author, and consultant to the livestock industry. Her insights into animal behavior and innovations in livestock handling have revolutionized food-animal welfare.

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Achieve Degree and college students

It was a privilege to meet Dr. Temple Grandin recently. As I shared in my last post about our meeting, her advice on college and work for individuals with autism is incredibly helpful, not only for those on the spectrum but for anyone facing challenges in higher education or employment.

I was also really proud to realize that many of the elements of The Achieve Degree were consistent with her thoughts about how best to educate individuals with autism at the college level.

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Temple Grandin Movie Wins 7 Emmy Awards!!

The very talented cast and crew of the HBO film Temple Grandin received most of the major awards in their catagory! It won for Best Made-for-Television Movie, Best Director, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Music Composition, and Best Camera Editing at the 62nd Emmy Awards on Sunday August 29, 2010.   

Temple’s unforgettable presence made an enormous impact on the ceremony, as she praised Claire Danes for her amazingly accurate portrayal of her, and acknowledged her mother from the podium.

Temple's latest book The Way I See It encompasses her ideas about dealing with autism.

 

Time Magazine honors Temple!

Temple was recently named one of the Time Magazine 100 most Influential people in the world. She was recognized for her work as a world-famous animal scientist and autism self-advocate.

The list, now in its seventh year, recognizes the activism, innovation, and achievement of the world's most influential individuals.  Temple is listed as one of twenty-five "Heroes" of 2010.  The author of the article, a professor at Harvard University, writes, "What do neurologists, cattle, and McDonald's have in common?  They all owe a great deal to one woman...Temple Grandin….an extraordinary source of inspiration for autistic children, their parents—and all people."

As Managing Editor of TIME Magazine, Rick Stengel has said of the list in the past, "The TIME 100 is not a list of the most powerful people in the world, it's not a list of the smartest people in the world; it's a list of the most influential people in the world. They're scientists, they're thinkers, they're philosophers, they're leaders, they're icons, they're artists, they're visionaries. People who are using their ideas, their visions, their actions to transform the world and have an effect on a multitude of people."

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