Temple Grandin
Birthday: 1947-08-29 Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Synopsis
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.
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