Temple Grandin is one of the nation's top designers of livestock facilities. She is also autistic. Grandin's new book is Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal ...

One of the most flat-out fascinating books on autism is Temple Grandin’s Animals in Translation. (Grandin, Temple and Catherine Johnson. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to ...

She is also autistic — and has put that to work for her. Grandin has written several books on animals, including Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.

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 ...

'Autistic people,' she writes, 'are closer to animals than normal people are.' This may sound like a cruel judgment, the sort of thing a cold-hearted clinician would say, but it isn’t.

Grandin (Animals in Translation ), famed for her decades-long commitment to treating livestock as humanely as possible on its way to slaughter, considers how humans and animals can best interact.

Grandin has penned eight books about living with autism and working with animals, including “Animals in Translation” and “Thinking in Pictures,” the autobiography that was made into an award-winning ...

Books Animal scientist Temple Grandin uses autism to help explain the emotions of critters in her new book 'Animals Make Us Human' Published: Jan. 12, 2009, 4:23 p.m.

Animals in Translation Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Temple Grandin with Catherine Johnson Scribner: 358 pp., $25 ...