OLLI Talks: Temple Grandin and Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions (TMI Building)

Join author, activist, researcher, and Distinguished Professor Temple Grandin as she discusses her recent book, Visual Thinking:  The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions.  With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem-solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual-spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.

This presentation will take place in the Translational Medicine Institute (TMI), just across Research Blvd. from Drake Hall.  Please plan to park at Drake Hall and walk or pay for parking at the kiosks by the tennis courts or at the TMI building.  

Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She has a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and is a distinguished professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She is the author of six books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation, and Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions.  Dr. Grandin is a past member of the board of directors of the Autism Society of America. She lectures to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. about her experiences with autism, and her work has been covered in the New York Times, People, National Public Radio, and 20/20. Most recently, she was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year. The HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.

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