Friday 16 November 2012

Temple Grandin

Like a lot of people with Autism and other disabilities it's so easy to feel alone in the world when we are not.
We must open our eyes to a voice of who has lived in a world of Autism and Anxiety longer than many of us. The great thing about learning disability awareness and Self - Advocacy is that the older generation can give the younger generation confidence in ones life and believe in one's self. Here's a fine example. I thought I was alone until my Mother told me about this young lady whose older than me.then opened my eyes to know that I'm not alone.

Temple Grandin was on the 29th August 1947 Boston Massachuett American. Her parents names are Richard Grandin and Eustacia Cutter.

Temple was diagnosed with Autism at the age of four in 1951, which was when she started talking. Although Temple could say a few vocabulary words when she was eighteen mouths to two years old. At the time she was labelled with brain damage. Temple's Mother spoke to a doctor who suggested Speech therapy.

She was sent to a Nursley school, which Temple remembers the teachers to be very good to her.

Temple counted herself lucky to have had supportive mentors when she was in Primary school.

Temple was very unhappy in middle and high school because she was bullied and teased.

After graduating at Hampshire Country boarding school, which was for children who are gifted, she did her bachelors's degree in Psychology in 1966.

Temple always had a great interest in animal cattle such as cows and pigs, which calm her down through her Anxiety. She's involved in animal Welfare.

She did her master degree in animal science Arizona State University in 1975.

In 1989 she did a doctortal degree in animal science at University of Llinot at Urbana - Champaign.

Temple recieved a honory doctorate degree from Ontario Veterinary college, University of Guelph, Canada at the 2012 winter convocation; this where she was the keynote speaker.

16th May 2010, Temple recieved an honory Doctorate of Humane Letters from Duke University.

I like Temple Grandin because she has a great understanding of Autism and Anxiety. She has first hand experince like I do. We speak up for the rights of learning disabilitiy.

I like the way she copes with her learning disabilites. Animals help her with her Anxiety. Otherwise she'd feel threatened by the rest of the world around her, which is no different to my learning disability.