temple grandin the autistic brain thinking across the spectrum

Agent: Betsy Lerner, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. Grandin’s particular skill is her remarkable ability to make sense of autistics’ experiences, enabling readers to see “the world through an autistic person’s jumble of neuron misfires,” and she offers hope that one day, autism will be considered not according to some diagnostic manual, but to the individual. The authors urge parents, teachers, and society to focus on the strengths of autistics, and they devise a “three-ways-of-thinking model”-by pictures, patterns, or words/facts-to foster change in schools and the workplace.

Temple Grandin may be the most famous person with autisma. The right brain has created the right book for right now.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate. In a new book, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, by Grandin and Richard Panek, she explains what shes learned in recent years about her brain and the brains of others with autism. Leo Kanner gave the first diagnosis, researchers are making huge strides. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum Author(s): Dr. Was the source of these behaviors biological, or was it psychological?” Now, 70 years after Johns Hopkins University M.D. “From the start, medical professionals didn’t know what to do with autism. Since 1987, when Grandin, a noted Colorado State University animal science professor, became “one of the first autistic subjects to undergo” an MRI, she has taken multiple “journey to the center of mind” in the hope that neuroimaging technologies will lead to a better understanding of autism. If you want to know why an autistic person acts the way he or she does, “you have to go beyond” behavior and “into his or her brain,” according to Grandin (Thinking in Pictures) and science writer Panek (The 4% Universe). TEMPLE GRANDIN is one of the worlds most accomplished and well-known adults with autism.

Temple grandin the autistic brain thinking across the spectrum