Temple Talks About Autism and the Older Child

Your pocket guide to Dr. Temple Grandin is back, and this time focusing on older kids with autism! Dr. Grandin is a doctor of animal science, a professor at Colorado State University, a best-selling author, an autism activist, and a consultant on animal behavior. She also invented the "squeeze machine", a device to calm the sensory systems of those on the autism spectrum. The subject of an award-winning, 2010 biographical film, Temple Grandin, she also was listed in the Time 100 list of the one hundred most influential people in the world in the "Heroes" category. Have you even wanted to talk to Temple about older kids with autism, Asperger’s, PDD and Sensory Processing Disorder? Here, in this handy reference book, Temple gives a overview of what it is like to have autism and how to best acheive as your child gets older, gives useful tips, then answers your questions in an easy to reference Q&A.