Meet Temple Grandin: Renowned Animal Scientist and Autism Advocate<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nTemple Grandin is one of the most prominent figures in the autistic community. In 1986, she published her first book, Emergence: Labeled Autistic<\/em>, which took the medical community by storm and changed the public’s understanding of autism forever. At the time, such a book was \u201cunthinkable because it had been a medical dogma for forty years or more that there was no \u2018inside,\u2019 no inner life, in the autistic, or that if there was it would be forever denied access or expression.\u201d (Grandin & Sacks, 2006, p xiii). Yet here was Temple, intensely articulate, with pages and pages of insight into her experience as an autistic person; numerous books following her first.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTemple\u2019s work, however, does not lie solely in the world of autism. Temple Grandin is also renowned in the livestock industry. She\u2019s \u201ca gifted animal scientist who has designed one-third of all the livestock handling facilities in the United States\u201d. To say that Temple is passionate about cattle is an understatement, Oliver Sacks writes \u201cI was struck by her rapport with, her great understanding of, cattle\u2014the happy, loving look she wore when she was with them.” There’s Temple Grandin for you, but now who is Oliver Sacks? (Grandin & Sacks, 2006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n