**Registration is FULL**
To understand animals, you have to get away from words. The animal world is a sensory based world. Their memories are detailed pictures, sounds, smell, and other sensory impressions. This talk will help you understand animals but it will also give you insights into solving problems.
Agenda
5:00 pm: Doors Open; Book Signing with Dr. Temple Grandin
6:00 pm: Humane Livestock Handling, Dr. Temple Grandin
7:00 pm: Adjourn
Event Location: Randolph County Agricultural Center, EVENT CENTER, 1800 US HWY 64E, Asheboro, NC 27203
Pre-Registration event ONLY (no registration at the door)
Registration Cost: $28/person
*This event is full*
Hors d'oeuvres will be available during the event.
Dr. Temple Grandin Bio:
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world.Her life was brought to the screen with the HBO full-length filmTemple Grandin, starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts andSciences September 2016, featured on NPR, and she has a 2010 TED Lecture titled "TheWorld Needs ALL Kinds of Minds." She has also been featured on the BBC special “TheWoman Who Thinks Like a Cow”, ABC's “Primetime Live”, “The Today Show” and more. Grandin developed her talents into a successful career as a livestock-handling equipment designer, one of very few in the world. She also speaks on both autism and cattle handling. Dr.Grandin's current best selling book on autism isVisual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of PeopleWho Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions. She also authoredThe Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's; Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships; AnimalsMake Us Human; Animals in Translation; Thinking in Pictures; and Emergence: LabeledAutistic. Grandin is considered a philosophical leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements.
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