![]() ![]() ![]() " most insightful work to date… The Autistic Brain is something anyone could benefit from reading, and I recommend it to anyone with a personal or professional connection to autism or neurological difference."-John Elder Robison, author of Look Me in the Eye "In The Autistic Brain, Grandin explains what she's learned in recent years about her brain and the brains of others with autism." - USA Today "Grandin has reached a stunning level of sophistication about herself and the science of autism. The Autistic Brain brings Grandin’s singular perspective into the heart of the autism revolution. ![]() ![]() Most excitingly, she argues that raising and educating kids on the autism spectrum must focus on their long-overlooked strengths to foster their unique contributions. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the advances in neuroimaging and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show which anomalies might explain common symptoms. Since her birth in 1947, our understanding of it has undergone a great transformation, leading to more hope than ever before that we may finally learn the causes of and treatments for autism. Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction Book Temple Grandin may be the most famous person with autism, a condition that affects 1 in 88 children. In The Autistic Brain, New York Times bestselling author Temple Grandin "has reached a stunning level of sophistication about herself and the science of autism" (The New York Review of Books). ![]()
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