Temple Grandin Speaking at Sarah Lawrence College's 2010 Longfellow Lecture

The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's
Temple Grandin, PhD

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Temple Grandin, PhD, noted author and speaker, is well-known as a highly accomplished adult with autism. After obtaining her BA at Franklin Pierce College and her MS in Animal Science at Arizona State University, Dr. Grandin received her PhD in Animal Science from the University of Illinois. She designs livestock handling facilities with a focus on humane design and improved animal welfare. Using her strengths as a visual thinker, she has designed the facilities in which half the cattle are handled in the United States, consulting for firms such as Burger King, McDonald's, and Swift, among others. She has also published more than 400 articles in scientific journals and periodicals on animal handling, welfare, and facility design.

Dr. Grandin is currently a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She also speaks and writes frequently about her experiences as a person with autism. Her bestselling books include The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships, Animals Make Us Human, Animals in Translation, Thinking in Pictures, and Emergence: Labeled Autistic.

This lecture series, inaugurated in 1987, honors the memory of Cynthia Longfellow, SLC '72, Harvard Ed.D. '79, who devoted her professional life to bettering the lives of young children. The lecture is funded by an endowment established by family and friends.

The Longfellow Lecture Series is offered by the Child Development Institute of Sarah Lawrence College. http://www.slc.edu/cdi

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