Temple Grandin

Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition (eBook, ePUB)

My Life with Autism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism-because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.

In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307548030
• Artikelnr.: 39248795

Autorenporträt

Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation, Animals Make Us Human, The Autistic Brain, and Thinking in Pictures, which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been a pioneer in improving the welfare of farm animals as well as an outspoken advocate for the autism community. She resides in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Foreword by Oliver Sacks
1. Thinking in Pictures: Autism and Visual Thought
2. The Great Continuum: Diagnosing Autism
3. The Squeeze Machine: Sensory Problems in Autism
4. Learning Empathy: Emotion and Autism
5. The Ways of the World: Developing Autistic Talent
6. Believer in Biochemistry: Medications and New Treatments
7. Dating Data: Autism and Relationships
8. A Cow's Eye View: Connecting with Animals
9. Artists and Accountants: An Understanding of Animal Thought
10. Einstein's Second Cousin: The Link Between Autism and Genius
11. Stairway to Heaven: Religion and Belief