PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM ITS ORIGINAL APRIL 3 DATE.

Join us for a special event with Dr. Temple Grandin, one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. Dr. Grandin has been at the forefront of research and activism for autism and neurodiversity for decades and has written many books on those subjects, with a specific focus on visual thinking. Her book, Thinking in Pictures, upended the way the world understood autism, and her latest, Visual Thinking, published more than twenty-five years later, was an instant New York Times bestseller.

REGISTER HERE for this Zoom program. A recording will be available for a limited time on the Illinois Libraries Present YouTube channel, and a link will be emailed to all registrants.

Although not formally diagnosed with autism until adulthood, Dr. Temple Grandin learned from a young age that she processed her environment in a vastly different way from her peers. Dr. Grandin's memoir, Emergence: Labeled Autistic, was published in 1986, and she has continued to write about autism and neurodivergence over the decades. Dr. Grandin used her experience with neurodivergence to advocate for better treatment and handling of livestock and is an expert in animal behavior. She holds a Ph.D in Animal Science from the University of Illinois and is a faculty member at Colorado State University. Her most recent book is Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions.