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Temple Grandin on self actualization

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The World Needs All Kinds of Minds | Temple Grandin

Autism activist Temple Grandin talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss.

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Temple Grandin
2010
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Transition Ideas: A Personal Perspective

Temple was asked to identify those factors that facilitated her successful transition and employment. Below is a short article from Temple on making the transition from high school to the workplace.

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Choosing the Right Job for People with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome

Jobs need to be chosen that make use of the strengths of people with autism or Asperger’s syndrome.

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Temple Grandin
1999
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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s

In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional! It’s true.

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Jennifer Mcilwee Myers, Temple Grandin
2025
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Different… Not Less: Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger’s, and ADHD (Revised & Updated)

Temple’s primary mission is to help people with ASD and ADHD tap into their hidden abilities. Temple chose contributors from a wide variety of skill sets to show how this can be done. Each individual tells their own story, in their own words, about their lives.

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Temple Grandin
2020
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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum | Dr. Temple Grandin | Talks at Google

Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show us which anomalies might explain common symptoms.

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Temple Grandin
2014
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Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Featuring Dr. Temple Grandin

Grandin—inventor, speaker, author and perhaps the autism community’s best-known advocate—encouraged her audience at Vanderbilt University on Thursday to embrace the diagnosis for what it can do: add diverse thinkers to a workforce that not only can accommodate them, but desperately needs them.

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Temple Grandin
2018
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