Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin was born to Richard Grandin and Eusatcia Culter on August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of two years, she developed some brain harm and was taken to a controlled nursery school with caring teachers who showed great concern for her. In 1950, Grandin was diagnosed as autistic, and she received little attention from the rest of the people and was not able to communicate sufficiently. This made her mother seek speech therapy and employed a nanny who ensured a social environment for Grandin by engaging her sister and her in several turn based games. At the age of four, Grandin began to have some improvements and started talking. In the course of progress with her studies, the middle school and high school were the most horrible part of her life as compared to primary school where she received great support from her mentors and teachers. She was ridiculed and called every kind of bad name which made her insecure and introverted.(Raymond, 2010). Grandin is known to have made swift progress in academics. Since immediately graduating from Hampshire Country School in Rindge, New Hampshire in 1966, she went for her degree in psychology from Franklin Pierce College in 1970. Later, in 1975, she obtained her masters’ degree in animal science from Arizona State University. At the University of Illinois in 1989, she completed her doctoral degree in animal science. Presently, Grandin lectures livestock behavior and animal facility design courses at Colorado State University. Temple Grandin was greatly important as she grew up being an autism activist throughout her academics, though the students she was schooling with did not understand the complexities of autism. With the help of her supportive mentors and parents who were the only people who recognized her interests and abilities, she was able to complete her studies very well as today she is referred to as a doctor. This brought motivation and a sign of confidence to other
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