Thinking in pictures : and other reports from my life with autism / Temple Grandin ; with a foreword by Oliver Sacks.
New York : Vintage Books, �2006Edition: 2nd Vintage books edDescription: xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780307275653
- 0307275655
- 9780307739582
- 0307739589
- Grandin, Temple
- Autistic people -- United States -- Biography
- Autistic Disorder
- Autistes -- �Etats-Unis -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- People with Disabilities
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Grandin, Temple
- Autistic people
- United States
- Grandin, Temple
- Autism -- Patients -- Biography
- Medical Humanities
- Mental Health York
- Health York
- 616.85/8820092 B 22
- RC553.A88 G74 2006
- WS350.8.A8 G736t 2006
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NCAR Library Foothills Lab | RC553 .A88 .G74 2006 | 1 | Not for loan | Part of the NaN Accommodations Library Collection. | 50583020021378 |
"Expanded edition including the most recent research, therapy, and resources"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269).
Thinking in pictures : autism and visual thought -- The great continuum : diagnosing autism -- The squeeze machine : sensory problems in autism -- Learning empathy : emotion and autism -- The ways of the world : developing autistic talent -- Believer in biochemistry : medications and new treatments -- Dating data : autism and relationships -- A cow's eye view : connecting with animals -- Artists and accountants : an understanding of animal thought -- Einstein's second cousin : the link between autism and genius -- Stairway to heaven : religion and belief.
The author describes her life with autism and how she has used her strong visual sensibility to cope with it.