Temple Grandin
Animal behaviorist and autism advocate
Temple Grandin is an American animal scientist and professor who champions humane livestock handling. She is also a well-known voice on autism.
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American Born 1947 in Boston, United States
About Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is an American academic, inventor, and ethologist who is a faculty member in animal sciences at Colorado State University. She earned a doctorate in animal science at the University of Illinois. She has written over 60 scientific papers about animal behavior and advises the livestock industry. Grandin is among the first autistic people to document what she learned from living with autism, and she has spoken up for autism rights and neurodiversity. Her books include Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation and The Way I See It. In 2010, Time magazine placed her in the Heroes category of its Time 100 list, and a film about her life, Temple Grandin, was released that year.