The Loving Push - How parents and professionals can help spectrum kids become successful adults (Broché)

Dr. Temple Grandin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Temple's achievements are remarkable because she was a child with autism. At age two, she had speech delays as well as other signs of severe autism. Many hours of speech therapy and intensive training enabled Temple ultimately to speak. As a teenager, life was hard with constant teasing. Mentoring by her high school science teacher and her aunt on her ranch in Arizona motivated Temple to study and pursue a career as a scientist and livestock equipment designer.
She is a popular international lecturer on autism, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, and the author of Emergence : Labeled Autistic ; Thinking in Pictures : Other Reports from My Life with Autism ; Animals in Translation ; Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships ; The Way I See It ; The Autistic Brain : Thinking Across the Spectrum ; DIFFERENT...Not Less ; and many more.