| Title | : | Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World |
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| Author | : | Sy Montgomery |
| Release | : | 2012-05-01 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Kids & Young Adults |
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| 1 | Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved C | Sy Montgomery |
| 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. |
