For those of you in the San Francisco Area

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Autism, Visual Thinking, Animal Behavior, and Design

By Dr. Temple Grandin

McBean Theater, 7pm

This is a special evening with world-renowned author

and animal scientist, Dr. Temple Grandin, as she

shares her insights on human and animal minds. Persons

with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) are often

extremely sensitive to external stimuli and see

aspects of the visual world that others fail to

notice. Dr. Grandin, who is herself autistic, believes

this capacity to “see the actual things themselves”

places autistic individuals in a unique position to

understand the ways animals think.

Temple Grandin, Ph.D. is the author of several

best-selling books, including The Unwritten Rules of

Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries

through the Unique Perspectives of Autism, Animals in

Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode

Animal Behavior, and Thinking in Pictures: and Other

Reports from My Life with Autism. She is Professor of

Animal Science at Colorado State University. A pioneer

in increasing the public's understanding of autism and

animal behavior, she draws from her experiences with

autism to design humane livestock facilities and to

articulate the singular ways in which individuals with

autism experience the world.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/08-1Mind.html

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