Visual Thinking Process in Design From the Viewpoint of A Person with Autism

Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and an Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She teaches courses on livestock behaviour and facility design and consults with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling, and animal welfare. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Temple Grandin is also autistic, and she describes the unique way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her autism and animal temperament in her book Thinking in Pictures.

She has appeared on television shows such as 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN Larry King Live, and has been featured in People Magazine, the New York Times, Forbes, and U.S. News and World Report.