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Temple Grandin
How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
Author: Sy Montgomery
Narrator: Meredith Mitchell
Unabridged: 2 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/01/2012
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical, Animals, Girls & Women, Social Topics, Disabilities, Technology, Inventions
Synopsis
When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. It wasn't until years later that she was diagnosed with autism, a brain disorder that makes communication difficult. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a brilliant scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her world-changing career has revolutionized the livestock industry—each year, half the cattle in the United States are handled in cruelty-free facilities she has designed. She is also a passionate advocate for autism, using her experience to prove that people with this disorder can have "normal" lives. To achieve this unprecedented success, Temple used a unique ability: she thinks visually, the same way animals do. Because she thinks in pictures, she can see the world as a cow or a dog or a pig might see it. And so she knows that animals raised for food deserve good lives and should be treated with respect. Now she gives them their voices.
