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An Evening with Dr. Temple Grandin - How Animals Make Us Human
Name: An Evening with Dr. Temple Grandin - How Animals Make Us HumanDate: September 18, 2019Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CDT
Event Description:
Come to spend an evening with the renowned Dr. Temple Grandin as she speaks about "How Animals Make us Human"!
Dr. Mary Temple Grandin is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, and autism spokesperson. She is one of the first individuals on the autism spectrum to publicly share insights from her personal experience of autism.
Temple Grandin is one of the world's most accomplished and well-known adults with Autism. She has a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois. She is the author of twelve books on autism and animal behavior, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures and Animals in translation. Dr. Grandin was inducted in the National Women's Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2018 she will be made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for the advancement of Science. She lectures to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. on her experiences with autism, and her work has been covered in the New York Times, People, National public Radio, and 20/20. Most recently she was named one of Time Magazine 's 100 most influential people of the year. The HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards. Her newest book, Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor was published in May 2018.
This event will go to benefit the Erath County Humane Society.