![]() Grandin's early books also helped bring awareness to the needs of autistic adults at a time when many people considered autism a childhood condition. "I think she deserves a tremendous amount of credit for focusing on science as a way to understand autism and improve the lives of individuals with autism," says Joy Hirsch, a Yale University neuroscientist whose work Grandin cites. ![]() She has written six previous books on autism and is the subject of a 2010 TV movie (called Temple Grandin) starring Claire Danes. She officially lives in Fort Collins, but says she "basically lives on the road" because of her two careers. ![]() ![]() Grandin, 65, a longtime professor of animal science at Colorado State University, is considered an important voice on autism because of her ability to describe her experience to a mainstream audience. But if discovered in a small child, they might be very important for targeting therapy to that child's specific needs, said Walter Schneider, the University of Pittsburgh psychologist who ran the scans of Grandin's brain. ![]()
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