About This Event
Taking place October 14th at 7 PM Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is one of the most accomplished and well known adults with autism in the world. Her life was brought to the screen with the HBO full length film Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences September 2016, featured on NPR, and she has a 2010 TED Lecture titled The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds. She has also been featured on the BBC special The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow, ABC's Primetime Live, The Today Show and more. Grandin developed her talents into a successful career as a livestock handling equipment designer, one of very few in the world. She also speaks on both autism and cattle handling. Dr. Grandins current bestselling book on autism is Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions.