Temple Grandin fans? | Autism PDD

The Indiana Resource Center for Autism has recently gathered 7 of Temple Grandin's articles in one place, with the author's permission. Here's the link:

http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/fTemple.html

Excellent - Thanks! I actually gave Temple's teaching tips, along with a couple of books, to the teacher my youngest son is going to have in his regular classroom this next year. She actually asked for reading recommendations, so I just gave her a few things as a gift.GREAT link! Short enough my husband MIGHT read them, LOL.

Did you know she's 58 years old? Here are two interviews with her on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165123 - A long conversation from January 2006. She says she thinks like Google image -- you put in a keyword (language) and her mind comes up with a ton of images (thinking in pictures).

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4278538 - "a key to animal behavior" from 2005

I just think the world of Temple Grandin. Thanks for sharing the links.She's the greatest...she offers some great insight into the mind of an autistic person. Bless her and all the struggles she had to go through to get where she is today. Thanx for the link!

The MIND institute features her lecture on their website - I really enjoyed it.

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/events/dls_record ed_events.html

I saw her in london at the national autistic society a couple of years age

jaqiue jackson was also there.

two very nice ladies

I didnt know she was 58 shes older then my parents

my moms 51 and my dads 54

i met her once a few years back when i was 8 my mom took me to a talk of hers and she seemed like a very nice lady

however according to mom when the time came for me to meet her we didnt make eye contact and completlety ignored each other

(lol off in our own worlds i guess however she could have had a lot on her mind because of the people and stimuli in the building)

but when mom told me i ignored her i found that kind of funny

autistics for ya people

Here's a BBC documentary called "The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow." Click below for part 1. There are 5 parts in all that you'll find on You tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ycu3JFRrA - part 1

Thank you for posting this. We are Temple Grandin fans big time !We just met Temples mom (Eustacia Cutler) at a Families Together conference. She is 82 and going strong! In those days you institutionalized! It caused major marriage problems ect. She wrote a book about raising an autistic child in the 50's and her experiences raising Temple. Its called A Thorne in My Pocket Tempple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story. A good read and wow have times changed!

Found this today:

http://www.autism.com/individuals/jobs.htm - "Choosing the right job" by Temple Grandin with lists of good jobs and bad jobs for visual learners

Here's a free coloring book about her life.

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/pImages/resources/pdf/templ e_grandon_book.pdf