Rebekah's review
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
Rebekah's review
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
Rebekah's review
rating:
bookshelves:
education,
memoir-biography,
psychology-personality
Temple Grandin's way with words is really wonderful. I love her books and her ability to let me peek inside how the mind of a person with autism works--not just hers, but people all along the spectrum. She makes it very clear that there are a wide range of abilities and challenges to people with autism and gives examples of and advice for many of them, which is infinitely useful for an educator like myself.
I expected this to be more of a memoir with stories of how she grew up and came to be the influential person she is today. Rather, it was a discussion of autism--where it comes from, what it looks like, how to help ease the symptoms--interspersed with stories of how she was and how she learned to cope with other people and empathise with animals.
I expected this to be more of a memoir with stories of how she grew up and came to be the influential person she is today. Rather, it was a discussion of autism--where it comes from, what it looks like, how to help ease the symptoms--interspersed with stories of how she was and how she learned to cope with other people and empathise with animals.
