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    <body><![CDATA[My book club selection for this month was Emergence: Labeled Autistic, by Temple Grandin. I found the book quite interesting and it was a rather quick read. It is written, with help, by an autistic woman who has been able to, in a sense, overcome her disability to make some wonderful discoveries and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29119599">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the chapters of Oliver Sacks’s <em>An Anthropologist on Mars</em> was about Temple Grandin – an autistic animal scientist. As a matter of fact, that book was named after her. During a conversation with Sacks, Grandin mentions that she feels like she’s an anthropologist on Mars: with her brain no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10259245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Temple Grandin is an amazing inspiration for all of us. I think few of us could achieve such success in the face of the kind of obstacles Temple--and others with Austism Spectrum Disorders--had to overcome. I also admire her candor in sharing her experiences; her courage to tell her story, even inci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38189207">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is some controversy as to whether or not someone can &quot;recover&quot; from autism, but this author is a good example in favor of that concept.  This book details mostly her early years and some realizations she arrived at, independent of doctors and psychologists, to improve her own conditi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51931435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[     This is not a book that I ever would have picked up to read, had a friend of mine not suggested it to me.  I really liked this book it was very interesting, informational, and sometimes disturbing.  Not only is Temple an amazing person, but her mother's love for her, and desire to help her achi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30961154">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading this book for a Developmental Variations grad school course and already I'm blown away.  It is the autobiographical story of a functioning autistic woman (she would call herself &quot;recovered autistic&quot; but I still notice some qualities of autism seep out in her writing). Regardle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23222238">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Temple Grandin tells her story from her early childhood memories to obtaining her PhD and acheiving enormous success in her career. I gained a deeper understanding of how autistic people perceive the world from reading her story. I also think Temple conveyed the message that anyone can acheive what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70876440">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd really rate this as a 3.5 if there were half-point ratings.  It's the true story of Temple Grandin and her childhood in the 1950s when autism was a labelled that held little hope for children.  Fortunately, she had a mother who believed in her and a mentor who helped her achieve what she could d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70266604">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have an autistic grandson, so I bought this one to learn about autism.  Temple went far beyond what my grandson will be able to do, so altho the book was very interesting, it wasn't what I had in mind.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am currently reading this book for school and I would recommend it to anyone, especially if you are interested in the VERY mysterious world of the Autism Spectrum Disorder. <br/><br/>Temple Grandin is a woman with Autism (very high functioning) and has a MS and PhD in Animal Science.  She is an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3619256">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't like this one very much. I have a lot of respect for Temple Grandin, but the matter-of-fact style of her writing was hard to follow and really get into. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was almost scary for me to experience an autistic person in this mode. So unlike what I'm used to.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Temple Grandin is a very interesting person to read about, I really enjoyed reading about life from her perspective.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another informative book.  If you want to learn more about autism, read these books!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have worked in education for almost 10 years and have spent a lot of my working with children with autism.  Through the years, I have read a number of books about autism and working with children with autism, but this book was the most insightful (and inspirational yet).  I love that she refers to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22270405">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ Very interesting book about autistic children.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad. I've seen her speak so not much new there, but it was interesting to hear how she dealt with some of the tougher, least socially acceptable parts of autism, though she didn't go into depth at all. I wish she'd told more about what interventions were used to help her. It gives a good general...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12070844">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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