She will be back to give an address as part of the book project, at 8 p.m. The UC Davis MIND Institute hosted her for a talk, “My Experience With Autism,” in February 2007 interest proved so high beforehand that the organizers moved the program from the MIND Institute auditorium in Sacramento to the larger Freeborn Hall on the Davis campus. Grandin is no stranger to UC Davis, having visited as an academic - she’s a professor of animal science at Colorado State University - and as a person with autism, able to help people understand it. The Campus Council on Community and Diversity had called for nominations on the theme of disability-disability issues (the council chooses a different theme each year) then a volunteer selection committee of faculty, staff and students reviewed the nominations, and recommended Thinking in Pictures from among the titles. Here’s an important addition to your fall reading list - Temple Grandin’s Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, just announced as the 2014-15 Campus Community Book Project. March 17: Copies of the book, in paperback, are now available at UC Davis Stores, at the discounted price of $11.95.
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