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	Review of Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures
		Grandin's contribution to the emerging genre of autobiography by high-functioning autistics will interest contemporary Humeans, because it is a window into a mind of which Hume's psychology is for the most part true.
		Grandin's own account suggests that Owen is off-base here: she experiences Humean passions, and her ability empathically to understand the feelings of animals is in part responsible for her success in designing livestock handling facilities.
		Living in a predominantly nonautistic world, Grandin does not have the option of taking her way of thinking to be the only one possible; this is perhaps why she, unlike Hume, does not insist on consigning the philosophy, along with the cattle futures, to the flames.
	www.philosophy.utah.edu /faculty/millgram/grandin-review.html (990 words)

	Neurontic: Temple Grandin: On thinking like an animal
		Temple describes her world as one of sensations heightened, sometimes to an excruciating degree: she speaks of her ears, at the age of two or three, as helpless microphones, transmitting everything, irrespective of relevance, at full, overwhelming volume—and there was an equal lack of modulation in all her senses.
		Grandin sensed that animals, like her, were prone to sensory overload and driven largely by fear.
		Grandin is aware that autism has robbed her of the full human experience, but she also believes her disorder has allowed her to avoid making one of the central mistakes of “normals”: over-generalizing.
	www.neurontic.com /2006/07/temple-grandin-on-thinking-like-animal.html (1729 words)

	Dr. Temple Grandin Books and Videos
		Temple's professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field.
		Temple Grandin draws from her own experience with autism spectrum disorders and her professional career, and Kate Duffy uses her expertise on employment issues and the mother of two teenagers with autistic-like behaviors.
		Here, in Temple Grandin's own words, is the story of what it is like to live with autism, to be among the few people who have broken through many of the neurological impairments associated with autism.
	templegrandin.com /templegrandinbooks.html (844 words)

	American RadioWorks: Fast Food and Animal Rights - Kill Them With Kindness, Page 1
		Temple Grandin is convinced that she knows how animals feel during their final moments in the slaughterhouse.
		Grandin goes home to her condo in Fort Collins, Colorado, and she's so speedy, so wired from working and traveling and watching all the slaughter, that she walks to her cramped bedroom and goes to her machine.
		Temple Grandin is autistic, and some therapy clinics use this machine, which she invented, when they treat autistic children.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/mcdonalds/grandin1.html (525 words)

	Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Cathering Johnson — Harcourt
		Grandin, an animal behavior expert specializing in the design of humane slaughter systems, is autistic, and she contends that animals resemble autistic people in that they think visually rather than linguistically, and perceive the world as a jumble of mesmerizing details rather than a coherent whole.
		The portrait [Grandin] paints of the mammalian mind is both alien and familiar; she shows that beasts are capable of sadistic cruelty, remorse, superstition, and surprising discernment (in one experiment, pigeons were taught to distinguish between early period Picasso and Monet).
		Grandin began to realize during her years of education that animals and autistics process the world in the same way: as discrete pictures, sounds, and smells—in other words, they do not convert experiences into abstract thought or language.
	www.harcourtbooks.com /AnimalsInTranslation/discussionguide.asp (4070 words)

	Temple Grandin reported by Minna, October 2002
		Temple spoke of her life as a child and growing up, and her mother was there to offer her own perspective and feelings during those times.
		Temple is a speaker that captivated the attention because had seen some interesting books written by her previously at the book tables.
		Temple’s speech was more informative because she spoke not only of her life experiences, but also about things that worked well for her, and things that didn’t work well for her.
	www.ont-autism.uoguelph.ca /minna-grandin.html (2353 words)

	UPC Reviews Temple Grandin’s new book, Animals in Translation
		Temple Grandin is an animal science professor at Colorado State University and a consultant to the meat industry.
		Grandin says she loves animals, especially cows, but fully upholds the human right to own, control, manipulate, mutilate, buy, sell, inseminate, incarcerate, and slaughter animals, ship them into outer space, and have sex with them for business purposes.
		Grandin is commendable for getting meat industry people to pay a bit of attention to the animals they slaughter (at least when she’s around) and to how the slaughterhouse ("packing plant") environment affects animal behavior.
	www.upc-online.org /whatsnew/81105grandin.htm (1178 words)

	Untitled Document
		Temple Grandin's life story is worth telling for its success-story drama alone, and as such should appeal to a wide audience.
		Both artists felt that Grandin's intellect could be shown in a drama, but to show what is in her heart required the lyrical, emotional elements of music and dance.
		Similarly, Temple herself has had to find new ways to communicate, first to escape being branded as autistic and therefore expendable, then to be accepted around ranchers as a woman who actually knows something about cattle (in her opinion, a more difficult job than getting them to accept her autism).
	www.gregpalmer.com /temple.htm (1297 words)

	BrainConnection.com - Looking at Autism from the Inside - Page 2
		This is one reason Temple Grandin's memoirs are invaluable; she often writes of a time when verbal communication was not adequately available to her, a state from which some individuals with autism never fully emerge.
		Grandin states in Thinking in Pictures that if she were a toddler today, her diagnosis would be classic Kanner's syndrome due to her abnormal speech development, yet as an adult she would be diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
		Grandin also recalls an incident when she was reprimanded for not cooperating while the class clapped in time with the music her teacher played on the piano.
	www.brainconnection.com /topics/?main=fa/autism-inside2 (674 words)

	Temple Grandin
		This was the scenario presented by renowned animal scientist Temple Grandin, a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell, in a public lecture Feb. 15 in Statler Auditorium.
		Grandin is autistic, and as a result she thinks by putting what she sees into categories.
		Grandin is probably best known, however, for her books about autism; "Thinking in Pictures" and "Emergence: Labeled Autistic" were bestsellers; her latest title "Animals in Translation," which relates animal thinking to autism, is currently on the New York Times' best sellers list.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/Feb06/temple.grandin.ak.html (555 words)

	Temple Grandin: 'I'm an anthropologist from Mars' \| Special Reports \| EducationGuardian.co.uk
		But Temple Grandin has a second claim to intellectual fame, one that closely affects her work in animal welfare through her striking ability to empathise with animals and to produce intricate blueprints for more humane animal systems.
		The brains of autists, Grandin says, her pale blue eyes staring into the distance as she speaks, tend to be far less "interconnected" than those of non-autists.
		Grandin doesn't disagree, although she points out, ironically, that it may have been easier in the days when the condition was less well understood for gifted sufferers to land plum positions at universities than in what she sees as today's more strait-laced times.
	education.guardian.co.uk /academicexperts/story/0,1392,1599631,00.html (1372 words)

	Colorado State University - Fort Collins
		Temple Grandin, an animal sciences professor at Colorado State University since 1990, is considered a leader in animal welfare and arguably the most accomplished and well-known adult with high-functioning autism in the world.
		Grandin advises people having a problem with an animal to try to see what the animal is seeing and experience what the animal is experiencing.
		Grandin is committed to the students she teaches at CSU, as well as helping develop the talents of other autistic individuals.
	welcome.colostate.edu /index.asp?url=programs_grandin (1680 words)

	American RadioWorks: Fast Food and Animal Rights - Kill Them With Kindness, Page 5
		Grandin designed the ramp that takes the cattle to their deaths, and now people all over the industry use her nickname for it— The stairway to heaven.
		Grandin says when she started these audits a few years ago; the workers who shoot the bolts were missing, a lot.
		Grandin says she's not a religious person, exactly, but she's come to feel that killing animals is a sacred act — she says they're not factory parts, they're living beings.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/mcdonalds/grandin5.html (776 words)

	What Do Animals Think? - - science news articles online technology magazine articles What Do Animals Think? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grandin defines what works when it comes to handling cattle in feedlots and slaughterhouses because she defines it from the cow’s point of view.
		Grandin sets out to portray the mental and emotional character of animals and its resemblance to that of autistic people—all of it set against the familiar backdrop of normal human intelligence and behavior.
		Grandin designed a circular junction that causes them to turn their direction completely, as if they were returning to the yards.
	www.discover.com /issues/may-05/features/what-do-animals-think/?page=1 (1340 words)

	Information Resources for Livestock and Poultry Handling and Transport
		In the wild, novelty and strange sights or sounds are often a sign of danger (Grandin, 1993a).
		Cattle that had been mishandled in a squeeze chute and struck hard on the head by the headgate were more likely to resist entry into the chute in the future (Grandin et al., 1994) compared with cattle that had never been hit with the headgate.
		Grandin, T. Observations of cattle behavior applied to the design of cattle handling facilities.
	www.nal.usda.gov /awic/pubs/livestock/lvstgran.htm (5778 words)

	NPR : Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language
		Temple Grandin says a challenge of having autism is not only learning to understand other people, but getting other people to understand you.
		Grandin says these differences in how autistic people think and process information have have made learning to communicate effectively a life-long struggle for her.
		Grandin spoke with NPR about the challenges she's faced learning to speak, and what she's learned about language and autism.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488844 (1103 words)

	Thinking in Pictures, by Temple Grandin
		Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures is the story of her childhood and life with autism.
		She found it liberating to recognize that the various psychiatric, psychological and moralistic theories of autism were nonsense; that her problems "weren't the result of my weakness or lack of character," and that the problem lies in the neurochemistry of the brain, particularly the limbic system.
		Grandin believes that the perceived defects of many autistic people, such as becoming fixated on a subject, can be turned into assets by cultivating a deep knowledge of a subject area and becoming expert in it.
	www.unhooked.com /booktalk/thinking_in_pictures.htm (860 words)

	Book Review - Thinking in Pictures/Temple Grandin - Autism Spectrum Disorders
		Temple discusses how many parents are looking for a magic cure thinking their child has to have ten hours of intensive therapies.
		Temple discussed emotions and how she just recently had discovered she does not experience the full range of emotions.
		Temple designed a squeeze machine that was the result of studying the behavior of the cows during their walk through in the slaughter houses.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art33300.asp (868 words)

	Autism no obstacle (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Temple Grandin says her autism helps her understand animals.
		Temple Grandin hasn’t let autism prevent her from living life to the fullest.
		Grandin’s book, which has been called, "a groundbreaking view of the intersection of autism and animal," compares animals to autistic savants, stating that animals may have special forms of genius that most people cannot see.
	www.gmtoday.com.cob-web.org:8888 /content/LSW/2005/May/19.asp (394 words)

	An Interview with Temple Grandin
		Spearheaded by Jen Kuhn ‘01, Dr. Grandin’s visit provided a rare opportunity for community members, students, and faculty alike to personally interact with one of the most studied individuals in many academic disciplines, from cognitive neuroscience to philosophy, and from education to animal science.
		Grandin is a high-functioning autistic woman who possesses unique visuo-spatial gifts and a rare ability to objectify her own autism.
		Temple Grandin: One of the things that concerns me, so much of academic thinking has gotten so highly verbal and abstract that you lose a lot of detail.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol7-spring2000/grandin.htm (1620 words)

	Temple Grandin lecture
		Temple Grandin, renowned designer of humane livestock facilities and associate professor of animal science at Colorado State University, will speak on "Animal Behavior, Autism and Welfare Auditing," Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m.
		Grandin, a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell, is one of the few experts on animal welfare who is respected by animal rights activists as well as politicians and corporate officials in industry and agriculture.
		Grandin is one of the subjects of "An Anthropologist on Mars," a book by Oliver Sacks, an A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/Feb06/grandin.prewrite.fac.html (390 words)

	Temple Grandin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She is an associate professor of animal science at Colorado State University, but that's not what has put Temple Grandin in the spotlight.
		Grandin has autism, a developmental disorder of the brain that leads to difficulties with social interaction, language problems and sometimes atypical behavior.
		Grandin will be in Pittsburgh this month to attend a conference on autism at Duquesne University.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06233/715068-129.stm (918 words)

	Temple Grandin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Temple Grandin, PhD, (born August 29, 1947) is an associate professor at Colorado State University and famous and succesful adult with high-functioning autism.
		Grandin received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Franklin Pierce College in 1970, her master's degree in animal science from Arizona State University in 1975, and her PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
		Grandin is considered a philosophical leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Temple_Grandin (774 words)

	Amazon.com: Emergence: Labeled Autistic: Books: Temple Grandin,Margaret M. Scariano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism at the age of three.
		Grandin was helped on her path by her mother and good teachers, but she also helped herself by educating herself on all possible fronts as to why she reacted and behaved (and how to control those reactions and behaviors).
		Temple Grandin might be the most famous autistic person in the world, and this book, her autobiography, at 180 simply-written pages, can be read by children and adults.
	www.amazon.com /Emergence-Labeled-Autistic-Temple-Grandin/dp/0446671827 (1787 words)

	BBC - Ouch! - Features - Autism helps me understand animals: an interview with Temple Grandin
		Temple Grandin's Autism may have got her kicked out of school, but it has also made her an internationally-renowned expert in animal welfare - thanks, she believes, to her extraordinary ability to understand how animals think.
		Temple believes people with Autism share the same kind of savant skills which allow migrating birds to remember routes spanning halfway across the globe and squirrels to recollect where they have hidden hundreds of nuts - or Rainman to memorise all the names and addresses in the phonebook.
		Temple's book offers advice on how to train your pet, based on her theory that if you learn to spot an animal's emotions, you can understand the motivation behind its bad behaviour.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ouch/features/calvi_templegrandin.shtml (1056 words)

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