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Summary:

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / 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
• 2. Stairway To Heaven: Religion And Belief.

Author/Creator:

Grandin, Temple , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Thinking in pictures: and other reports from my life with autism [by Grandin, T.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Thinking in pictures [by Grandin, T.] (2nd Vintage Books ed.; New York : Vintage Books, ©2006 — LCCN 2006273450)

Subjects:

Grandin, Temple

Autistic people — United States — Biography

Autistic people

Biography

United States

Genres:

Biography

Autobiographies

Personal narratives

Biographies

General Notes:

"Expanded edition including the most recent research, therapy, and resources"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269).
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RC553.A88 G74 2006eb

ISBNs:

9780307548030
0307548031
9780307473059
0307473058
0307275655 [Invalid]
9780307275653
0307275655
9781408807309 (ebook)
1408807300
9780307739582 [Invalid]
0307739589 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2006273450

OCLC Numbers:

232157598