Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism

English

Series: Vintage Ser.

ISBN: 0307739589

EAN: 9780307739582

Category: Psychology / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders/Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General/Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 01/31/2010

Synopsis: Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism--because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectivies of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Picturesis the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.

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Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.62 inches

Width: 5.19 inches

Length: 7.97 inches

Weight: 10.12 oz

Pages: 304