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In spite of her communication issues, Temple's teachers recognized that she was a bright student. Temple graduated from Hampshire County School (school for the gifted) then earned her Bachelor's degree in psychology from Frankin Pierce College and her Master's degree in animal science from Arizona State University and a doctoral degree in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1989.
Temple is known world-wide as an animal wellness authority. Most of her research and inventions are related to reducing the stress that livestock endure while they are being raised as part of humans' food supply. Temple realized early on that her autism allowed her to relate to and understand cattle in ways that most other "normal" functioning adults do not. Temple's compassion and affinity for livestock are partly responsible for her successful cattle enclosure design business.
Currently, Temple lives alone in Colorado. She has never been married and does not have any children.
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Image source: http://fhautism.com/temple-grandin-award-nominations.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
http://www.biography.com/people/temple-grandin-38062
http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Ei-La/Grandin-Temple.html
Temple's mother enrolled her into a nursery school and hired a nanny who spent numerous hours playing turn-taking games with Temple and her sister. Temple remembers from an early age that her brain has always processed everything that she experiences as pictures--she thinks in pictures. Temple enjoyed primary and elementary school, but did not enjoy middle school and high school, because her classmates picked on her about her communication problems and teased her, by calling her Tape Recorder, because she repeated herself.
Temple Grandin was diagnosed with brain damage, then correctly diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. Temple did not begin to speak until she was four years old. Temple's father wanted to put her in an institution, as was common for children with mental differences during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Childhood and Education:
Parents: Richard Grandin and Eustacia Cutler
Siblings: 2 younger siblings, one sister and one brother
Born: August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts
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