"In her new book, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Grandin examines the surprising similarities between an animal’s mind and an autistic mind—her own.

Temple Grandin, autism awareness advocate and animal scientist, spoke to a full audience at ASU’s Galvin Playhouse Tuesday night, sharing her expertise on autism, animals and sensory-based thinking.

Silent until the age of 4, Temple Grandin might have spent her life in an institution had her mother taken doctors' advice in 1950. Instead, she hired a speech therapist and nanny for her daughter, ...

Temple Grandin didn’t speak until she was three years old. When she was diagnosed with autism in 1950, her mother engaged Grandin in activities such as speech therapy and games to stimulate her mind.

Four new portraits have gone up at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, showcasing this year’s recipients of the ...

If you have a pet at home, you might have wondered why your companion often gets obsessed with certain objects, sometimes to an excessive degree. If so, the chances are: your pet might have autism. As ...

Prof. Temple Grandin is the subject of an HBO film, an accomplished scientist, a renowned animal welfare advocate and a prominent autistic professor. But last night, in her last lecture as Cornell’s ...

Most modern livestock handling facilities and methods that minimize stress and insecurity to large animals owe their implementation to an autistic person, Temple Grandin. Her recommendations have been ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Fresh from hearing her name called five times at this year’s Emmy Awards, Temple Grandin addressed ...

Remember when we wrote about Iris Grace, the incredibly talented 5-year-old girl with autism who paints beautiful pictures? It turns out that she has a behind-the-scenes helper who’s also worthy of ...

"In her new book, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Grandin examines the surprising similarities between an animal’s mind and an autistic mind—her own.

When Temple Grandin argued that animals and autistic savants share cognitive similarities in her best-selling book Animals in Translation (2005), the idea gained steam outside the community of ...