emple Grandin is an engineer,
a doctor of animal science, and
a professor at Colorado State
University. She has achieved all this
even while having been diagnosed as
autistic when she was two years old.
In her recent book, The Autistic Brain:
Thinking Across the Spectrum, she
discusses her efforts to understand
how humans develop and use different
ways of thinking through interviewing
autistic individuals in different fields
and disciplines. Through this she has
identified three different ways people
organize, process, remember, and use
new information: thinking in words,
thinking in pictures, and thinking in
patterns or structures