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Dr temple grandin the autistic brain5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() On Friday, March 18, the author and advocate will speak at BU, hosted by Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the Ivy Street School, a private school based in Brookline, Mass., that supports neurodivergent youth. She is also the subject of the acclaimed HBO film Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of Grandin. She has received multiple honorary degrees and in 2016 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. ![]() She also delivered a TED Talk that year, “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds,” about the need for neurodiversity, which has since garnered more than six million views. She’s also garnered myriad accolades: in 2010, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Grandin’s portfolio has also grown: since Emergence, she’s authored numerous books on neurodivergency (plus a handful on animal behavior and husbandry), including the New York Times bestseller The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Over the intervening decades, our understanding of autism spectrum disorder-which is estimated to affect one in 44 children in the United States-has vastly widened, as has our ability to support individuals living with developmental disorders. ![]()
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