"In her new book, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Grandin examines the surprising similarities between an animal’s mind and an autistic mind—her own.

Silent until the age of 4, Temple Grandin might have spent her life in an institution had her mother taken doctors' advice in 1950. Instead, she hired a speech therapist and nanny for her daughter, ...

Most modern livestock handling facilities and methods that minimize stress and insecurity to large animals owe their implementation to an autistic person, Temple Grandin. Her recommendations have been ...

Prof. Temple Grandin is the subject of an HBO film, an accomplished scientist, a renowned animal welfare advocate and a prominent autistic professor. But last night, in her last lecture as Cornell’s ...

Temple Grandin, an inventor in the field of animal processing and the most recognized face of autism in the United States, will speak at Oregon State University at 7 p.m. Friday, April 30. Grandin is ...

It's Animal Week on Fresh Air; during these last days of summer, we're featuring rebroadcasts of our best conversations about animals and how we live with them. Temple Grandin is one of the nation's ...

I live with several cocker spaniels. They are smart and affectionate, but sometimes air-headed, impulsive and extremely sensitive. It's common for friends to describe my dogs as "having ADHD" as one ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- As many as one in 68 children has autism spectrum disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result, those children may communicate, interact ...

A new study published in the journal Cognition has found that people with lower levels of autistic traits show a persistent tendency to pay more attention to images of animals compared to images of ...

If you have a pet at home, you might have wondered why your companion often gets obsessed with certain objects, sometimes to an excessive degree. If so, the chances are: your pet might have autism. As ...

"In her new book, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Grandin examines the surprising similarities between an animal’s mind and an autistic mind—her own.