Authors: Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks
ISBN-13: 9780307275653, ISBN-10: 0307275655
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: Revised Edition
TEMPLE GRANDIN earned her Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and went on to become a professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of four previous books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation. Grandin spearheaded reform of the quality of life and humaneness of death for the world’s farm animals.
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 autismbecause 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 perspectivies 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.
A high-functioning autistic, Grandin presents linked articles on her life and her work as an animal scientist. (Nov.)
Foreword | 11 | |
Ch. 1 | Thinking in Pictures : Autism and Visual Thought | 19 |
Ch. 2 | The Great Continuum : Diagnosing Autism | 43 |
Ch. 3 | The Squeeze Machine : Sensory Problems in Autism | 62 |
Ch. 4 | Learning Empathy : Emotion and Autism | 82 |
Ch. 5 | The Ways of the World : Developing Autistic Talent | 96 |
Ch. 6 | Believer in Biochemistry : Medications and New Treatments | 111 |
Ch. 7 | Dating Data : Autism and Relationships | 131 |
Ch. 8 | A Cow's Eye View : Connecting with Animals | 142 |
Ch. 9 | Artists and Accountants : An Understanding of Animal Thought | 157 |
Ch. 10 | Einstein's Second Cousin : The Link Between Autism and Genius | 174 |
Ch. 11 | Stairway to Heaven : Religion and Belief | 189 |
References and Selected Readings | 207 | |
Resource List | 221 |