Temple Grandin
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.
Known for
- Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2021)
- The Horse Boy (2009)
- Where the Horses Heal the Soul (2026)
- Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle (2020)
- Patterns of Evidence: Journey to Mount Sinai (2022)
- Spectrum: A Story of the Mind (2015)
- Farm and Red Moon (2022)
- Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts (2015)
- An Open Door (2023)
- Speciesism: The Movie (2013)
- This Business of Autism (2018)
- The Dying Trade (2025)