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Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Featuring Dr. Temple Grandin

By Temple Grandin — 2018

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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. See more...

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