Agent: Betsy Lerner, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. Grandin’s particular skill is her remarkable ability to make sense of autistics’ experiences, enabling readers to see “the world through an autistic person’s jumble of neuron misfires,” and she offers hope that one day, autism will be considered not according to some diagnostic manual, but to the individual. The authors urge parents, teachers, and society to focus on the strengths of autistics, and they devise a “three-ways-of-thinking model”-by pictures, patterns, or words/facts-to foster change in schools and the workplace. The book begins by defining autism, identifying characteristics and prevalence, exploring its history, and then moving on to the cognitive and social.

Leo Kanner gave the first diagnosis, researchers are making huge strides. The Neuroscience of Autism provides a comprehensive accounting of autism spectrum disorders by integrating scientific findings from behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological research. Was the source of these behaviors biological, or was it psychological?” Now, 70 years after Johns Hopkins University M.D. “From the start, medical professionals didn’t know what to do with autism. Since 1987, when Grandin, a noted Colorado State University animal science professor, became “one of the first autistic subjects to undergo” an MRI, she has taken multiple “journey to the center of mind” in the hope that neuroimaging technologies will lead to a better understanding of autism. If you want to know why an autistic person acts the way he or she does, “you have to go beyond” behavior and “into his or her brain,” according to Grandin (Thinking in Pictures) and science writer Panek (The 4% Universe). Her new book, The Autistic Brain, outlines that quest.' - Los Angeles Times 'Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different but coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds usShe excels at finding concrete examples that reveal the perceptual and social limitations of autistic and 'neurotypical.

The autistic brain book