Temple Grandin
August 29, 1947 (77 years old) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons. Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category “Heroes”. Description above from the Wikipedia article Temple Grandin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2023 · An Open Door as Self
- 2022 · Patterns of Evidence: Journey to Mount Sinai as Self
- 2021 · Oliver Sacks: His Own Life as Self
- 2020 · Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle as Self
- 2018 · This Business of Autism as Self
- 2015 · Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts as Self
- 2015 · Spectrum: A Story of the Mind as Herself
- 2013 · Speciesism: The Movie as Self
- 2009 · The Horse Boy as Herself (as Dr. Temple Grandin)
- 1992 · A Is for Autism as Herself