A professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation, Animals Make Us Human and The Autistic Brain, her bestselling memoir Thinking in Pictures (later turned into an award-winning biopic starring Claire Danes) broke ground on neurodiversity, transforming scientific investigation and public understanding. Whether by transforming how we think about autism or through her work on animal behavior, Grandin has never stopped following – and driving – the research on what makes minds tick. scientist Temple Grandin explores cutting-edge research to take us inside the world of visual thinking, reframing the conversation on neurodiversity and showing how necessary different types of thinkers are essential for our collective well-being. In the new landmark book Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions, New York Times bestselling author, autism activist and Ph.D. Visual thinkers see images in their mind’s eye – they include everyone from the photorealist-inclined “object visualizers” with a knack for design and problem solving to the more mathematically inclined, who excel at abstraction, pattern recognition and systemic thinking.Įven though visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, we live in a language-dominated world that tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. The event is free and open to the public, suitable for ages 12 and up. 20 in the Evanston Township High School auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave. “Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions,” a conversation with Temple Grandin, will be held at 7 p.m. Submitted by Evanston Township High School
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