Dr. Temple Grandin was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, USA. Temple’s achievements are remarkable because
she was a child with autism. At age two, she had speech delays as
well as other signs of severe autism. Fortunately, her mother
defied the advice of her doctor and husband, who recommended she be
institutionalized. Many hours of speech therapy and intensive
training enabled Temple ultimately to speak. As a teenager, life
was hard with constant teasing. Mentoring by her high school
science teacher and her aunt on her ranch in Arizona motivated
Temple to study and pursue a career as a scientist and livestock
equipment designer. She is a popular international lecturer on
autism, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University,
and the author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic; Thinking in
Pictures; Animals in Translation; Unwritten Rules of Social
Relationships; The Way I See It; DIFFERENT...Not Less; and many
more.
Debra Moore, Ph.D., is a psychologist who has
worked extensively with children, teens, and adults with high
functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger’s. She created and is the
facilitator of three LinkedIn groups: Linked to Aspergers, Helping
Hands Mentors, and Linked to Aspie Teens. In addition to providing
direct clinical services, she wrote newspaper and magazine columns
for over 20 years. Most recently, she contributed to The Nine
Degrees of Autism, which outlines a positive developmental model of
the process and stages adults experience when they realize they are
on the spectrum. Past president of the Sacramento Valley
Psychological Association, she recently retired from 35 years of a
private practice that also served as a supervising agency for
psychologists in training. She continues to live in Sacramento,
California, USA. She is greatly honored to co-author her first book
with Dr. Temple Grandin.
(Temple Grandin's) message to me and all parents of kids on the
upper end of the spectrum is simple and also — for my family —
life-altering." —Patty Sisco, The Dallas Morning News
”The Loving Push is hands down, the best autism book aimed at late
teens (through to mid-twenties and sometimes beyond). If you have
one of these kids already, this is the book to get.... particularly
if they spend "too much time" on the computer and/or in their
bedroom.” —Gavin Bollard, Life with Asperger's Blog
"The Loving Push is therefore aimed at parents, but also teachers
and all those who are dealing with individuals with ASD and offers
a real guide that suggests how to give the right motivation to
their children, helping them to overcome their natural negative
attitude towards change and their inability to face new experiences
with as positive a mentality as possible." —Tiziana Benini, Libri
da Leggere
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