{"id":2259,"date":"2010-02-05T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2012-11-13T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:37:48","slug":"hbo%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98temple-grandin%e2%80%99-offers-inside-look-at-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/hbo%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98temple-grandin%e2%80%99-offers-inside-look-at-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO\u2019s \u2018Temple Grandin\u2019 Offers Inside Look At Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"HBO%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98Temple%20Grandin%E2%80%99%20Offers%20Inside%20Look%20At%20Autism\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Disability Scoop: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2010\/02\/02\/temple-grandin\/6833\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">HBO\u2019s \u2018Temple Grandin\u2019 Offers Inside Look At Autism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism at age three<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 15px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/temple.grandin.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"114\" \/>, a doctor recommended she be placed in an institution. Instead, Grandin grew up to be a world-renowned expert on the handling of livestock and arguably the most famous person with autism in the world.<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> (HBO\/Van Redin: Image Courtesy Temple Grandin)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/video_icon.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"17\" \/>See the trailer of the new film called \u201cTemple Grandin\u201d starring Claire Danes premiering Feb. 6 on HBO.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She is the author of six books including Thinking with Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Now the story of Grandin\u2019s journey from struggling toddler to sought after Ph.D. and autism activist is the subject of a new film called \u201cTemple Grandin\u201d starring Claire Danes premiering Feb. 6 on HBO.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2010\/02\/02\/temple-grandin\/6833\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ahead of the premiere, Grandin, 62, spoke with Disability Scoop about the film and her life with autism<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2010\/02\/02\/temple-grandin\/6833\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2010\/02\/02\/temple-grandin\/6833\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disability Scoop: What was it like growing up in the 1950\u2019s and 1960\u2019s with autism?<\/p>\n<p>Temple Grandin: It was mostly terrible because they were diagnosing kids as mentally retarded and putting them in institutions. When I was 2 and 3-years-old, I had no speech. I had lots of tantruming, really severe autistic symptoms. Fortunately, the very first doctor that my mother took me to referred her to a little speech therapy school that two teachers ran out of their house. It was as good as any ABA program today.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article and complete interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2010\/02\/02\/temple-grandin\/6833\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Disability Scoop<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"240\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"domain=http:\/\/www.hbo.com\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/bin\/hboPlayer.swf?vid=1074470\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"domain=http:\/\/www.hbo.com\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"320\" height=\"240\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/bin\/hboPlayer.swf?vid=1074470\" FlashVars=\"domain=http:\/\/www.hbo.com\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"domain=http:\/\/www.hbo.com\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 210px;\"><a title=\"Trailer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/global-video\/video.html?view=grid&amp;vid=1074470&amp;autoplay=true\">Trailer<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability Scoop: HBO\u2019s \u2018Temple Grandin\u2019 Offers Inside Look At Autism When Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism at age three, a doctor recommended she be placed in an institution. Instead, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/hbo%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98temple-grandin%e2%80%99-offers-inside-look-at-autism\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1271],"tags":[515,42,186,522,520,521],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","tag-asd","tag-autism","tag-autism-spectrum","tag-disability-scoop","tag-temple-grandin","tag-thinking-with-pictures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}