There are a lot of positive things happening in education in many places. I got to sit in on a video conference with this woman recently. She is one of the reasons educators are examining some of their basic premises. Temple has a pretty severe
case of autism. She could have ended up being institutionalized for life. Thanks to early intervention she is extremely productive. Many of the slaughterhouses in this country were designed by her, because she's very good at it.

Quick jump to the Wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin

"Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic and animal behaviorist. She is a prominent proponent for the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a
consultant to the livestock industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior, and is also an autism spokesperson.[2]

Grandin is one of the first autistic people to document the insights she gained from her personal experience of autism. She is currently a faculty member with Animal Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University.

In 2010, Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, named her in the "Heroes" category.[3] She was the subject of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning biographical film Temple Grandin. Grandin has been an outspoken proponent
of autism rights and neurodiversity movements."

"When her book Thinking in Pictures was written in 1995, Grandin thought that all individuals with autism thought in photographic-specific images the way she did. By the time the expanded edition was published in 2006, she had realized that it had been
wrong to presume that every person with autism processed information in the same way she did. In the 2006 edition, she wrote that there were three types of specialized thinking. They were: 1. Visual Thinkers like she is, who think in photographically
specific images. 2. Music and Math Thinkers – who think in patterns and may be good at mathematics, chess, and programming computers. 3. Verbal Logic Thinkers – who think in word details, and she noted that their favorite subject may be history.

In one of her later books, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, the concept of three different types of thinking by autistic individuals is expanded. This book was published in 2013. An influential book that helped her to develop her concept
of pattern thinking was Clara Claiborne Park's book entitled Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism. It was published in 2001. The Autistic Brain also contains an extensive review of scientific studies that provide evidence that object-visual
thinking is different from spatial-visualization abilities."

One of Temple's insights is that she isn't very good at math and doesn't need to be to do what she does. She can work as part of a team, with mathematicians. When you see them drawn out her designs are very impressive. Part of what she is saying
is that we should look at people with learning problems as a potentially valuable resource instead of being simply people in need of charity.

TB

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