Contact: Marcia Shottenkirk, Communications Liaison
Communications@redlandscc.edu /405-422-6237
RENOWNED EXPERT ON AUTISM, DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN, TO SPEAK AT REDLANDS CONFERENCE CENTER
EL RENO, Okla. — Redlands Community College is preparing to welcome Dr. Temple Grandin at 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in our Conference Center for a dinner and evening presentation on autism and the integration of students with autism on college campuses.
Josh Hargis with Agvocates will also be speaking on his organization’s efforts to work with students with special needs.
Dr. Grandin, who could not speak until she was three-and-a-half years old, is now recognized as the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world.
In 1950, Grandin was diagnosed with autism. She tells her story in her book Emergence: Labeled Autistic. She has become a prominent speaker on autism because, according to her website, “I have read enough to know that there are still many parents, and yes, professionals too, who believe that ‘once autistic, always autistic.’ This dictum has meant sad and sorry lives for many children diagnosed, as I was in early life, as autistic. To these people, it is incomprehensible that the characteristics of autism can be modified and controlled. However, I feel strongly that I am living proof that they can.”
Grandin developed her interests and talents into a successful career as a livestock-handling equipment designer, one of very few in the world. She has now designed the facilities in which half the cattle are handled in the United States, consulting for firms such as Burger King, McDonald’s, Swift, and others.
She has been featured on radio, major television programs, and in world-wide publications. She is currently a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.
The cost for the dinner and presentation at Redlands is $10 per person. Those interested in attending are encouraged to pre-register by Nov. 9.
For more information, please contact the Communications Liaison office at 405-422-6237.
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