![]() ![]() Reading her story makes it easy to understand why so many parents of children diagnosed on the autism spectrum are skeptical of the advice and prognoses of doctors. Today, one-third of the cattle and hogs raised in the United States are handled in facilities Temple Grandin designed. Grandin went to graduate school, became interested in cattle, caring for them and preparing them for the slaughterhouse, began writing articles about cattle facilities, and eventually earned a Ph.D. Her mother kept her out of institutions, hired a speech therapist and a nanny, sent her to various special schools, got her through high school and off to college. ![]() A doctor told her mother that Temple should be institutionalized. 1947) was a young child she didn't speak, she didn't like to be touched, and she wouldn't make eye contact. I've been looking through that book and have found much of it is identical or very similar to Thinking in Pictures.) (note: this review might also serve as a review of Grandin's The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism ![]()
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