TEMPLE GRANDIN AG
Lilly Moore
AGR199-R40-SP15
March 30th, 2015
Dr. Temple Grandin Many people have never heard of Temple Grandin. I was one of those people until I was introduced to her story in this class. She was diagnosed with autism as a child. Her mother worked very hard to find the best care for her and put her through much speech therapy. By the time Temple was four, she learned to speak. Despite the on-going struggles of autism, she didn’t let it keep her from doing anything children without autism experience. In 1970, she earned a degree in psychology at Franklin Pierce College and then went on to earn her Master’s in Animal Science at Arizona State University. After that she attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a Doctoral degree in Animal Science. She worked for animal slaughterhouses as a consultant, helping them improve their facilities. Her contributions to animal science and agriculture could never be overlooked. Her discoveries have helped make agriculture what it is today.
Young Temple Grandin struggled on how to cope with her emotions, as do most autistic children. According to HBO’s Temple Grandin, she decided to spend the summer at her aunt and uncle’s ranch, where she would work until she had to go to college in the fall. At the ranch she noticed cattle panicked when going through the chute, but once they got into the squeeze chute, the sides tightened, and the cow became calmer. One day Temple began having a panic attack and connected the way the cow felt to how she was feeling. She realized a type of “squeeze machine” would calm her. Then she made her own squeeze machine that helped her. Over the summer she realized how strong her love for animals was. After graduating high school and undergraduate school, she went to a slaughter house and was disgusted in the treatment of those animals. She watched the cattle’s reactions and acted as if she was a cow, crawling through the chute. She noticed that open sided chutes allowed
AGR199-R40-SP15
March 30th, 2015
Dr. Temple Grandin Many people have never heard of Temple Grandin. I was one of those people until I was introduced to her story in this class. She was diagnosed with autism as a child. Her mother worked very hard to find the best care for her and put her through much speech therapy. By the time Temple was four, she learned to speak. Despite the on-going struggles of autism, she didn’t let it keep her from doing anything children without autism experience. In 1970, she earned a degree in psychology at Franklin Pierce College and then went on to earn her Master’s in Animal Science at Arizona State University. After that she attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a Doctoral degree in Animal Science. She worked for animal slaughterhouses as a consultant, helping them improve their facilities. Her contributions to animal science and agriculture could never be overlooked. Her discoveries have helped make agriculture what it is today.
Young Temple Grandin struggled on how to cope with her emotions, as do most autistic children. According to HBO’s Temple Grandin, she decided to spend the summer at her aunt and uncle’s ranch, where she would work until she had to go to college in the fall. At the ranch she noticed cattle panicked when going through the chute, but once they got into the squeeze chute, the sides tightened, and the cow became calmer. One day Temple began having a panic attack and connected the way the cow felt to how she was feeling. She realized a type of “squeeze machine” would calm her. Then she made her own squeeze machine that helped her. Over the summer she realized how strong her love for animals was. After graduating high school and undergraduate school, she went to a slaughter house and was disgusted in the treatment of those animals. She watched the cattle’s reactions and acted as if she was a cow, crawling through the chute. She noticed that open sided chutes allowed