“I didn’t know until I was late thirties that other people thought in words,” she explains. Grandin has also become a global advocate for the autism community with an incredible ability to open up and share her perspective on the world with us. Today Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, a tireless promoter of animal welfare and the author or co-author of more than a dozen books that include the best-sellers “Thinking in Pictures” (which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes) and “Animals in Translation.” Instead, she was tested for deafness and epilepsy. “The doctor who diagnosed me in 1949 did not know what autism was,” she says. Grandin explains that she didn’t speak until she was three and a half years old. Daniel Kraft, to discuss autism, neurodivergence and her latest book, Visual Thinking.
In honor of Autism Acceptance Month, Temple Grandin recently joined our host, Dr. A recent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study reported that one in 36 children in the United States is diagnosed with autism.
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