Autism+Resources

=**Autism Resources**=

1) **VIDEO** – **“Autism Every Day”**, August, 2006, 7 min video distributed by AUTISM SPEAKS, on YouTube.  Realistic view of living with children with autism and all of the challenges faced day-to-day by parents and families personally and in school and other systems. Produced by Lauren Thierry and Jim Watkins of October Group and Eric Solomon of Milestone Video.

2) ** VIDEO - “The Boy with the Incredible Brain”, Daniel Tammet. ** 5-part series, BBC Production, on YouTube. // Amazing account of the inside thinking and mental processing of a high-functioning verbal autistic savant in Great Britain. //

3) ** BOOK - “Born on a Blue Day – A Memoire of Asperger’s and an Extraordinary Mind”, ** autobiography by Daniel Tammet, 2016, Hodder & Stoughton.

4) **BOOK** - **“Look me in the Eye, My Life with Asperger’s”,** autobiography by [|John Elder Robison], Crown Publishing Group, 2007    // Look Me in the Eye //  is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Asperger's at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes you inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as "defective," who could not avail himself of KISS's endless supply of groupies, and who still has a peculiar aversion to using people's given names (he calls his wife "Unit Two"). It was not until he was forty that an insightful therapist told him he had the form of autism called Asperger's syndrome. That understanding transformed the way Robison saw himself-and the world.

5) ** MOVIE ** – ** “Temple Grandin” **, HBO movie released 2010.

6) ** BOOK ** – ** “Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autism” **, by Temple Grandin, January 2010, Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (expanded, Tie-in Edition with the movie).

7) ** VIDEO - “The Woman Who thinks like a Cow” ** 5-part series, BBC Horizon Documentary, on YouTube

**NOTE**: Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism--because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in "Thinking in Pictures" is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity. 

Temple Grandin was born August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a bestselling author, doctor and professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements. Grandin was diagnosed with autism in 1950. She was immediately placed in a structured nursery, had speech therapy, and had a nanny spend hours playing turn-based games with her. At the age of four, she began talking and her progress continued. In 1970, Grandin … + read more Temple Grandin was born August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a bestselling author, doctor and professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements. Grandin was diagnosed with autism in 1950. She was immediately placed in a structured nursery, had speech therapy, and had a nanny spend hours playing turn-based games with her. At the age of four, she began talking and her progress continued. In 1970, Grandin received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire. She received her master's degree in animal science from Arizona State University in 1975, and in 1989, she received a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Grandin, being a high-functioning autistic, is widely-known for her work in autism advocacy. She has been featured on major televisions programs such as the Today Show and ABC's Primetime Live. She has also been featured in Time magazine, People magazine, Forbes, and the New York Times. Grandin lives in Colorado, but has speaking engagements on autism and cattle handling around the world.