Conversation Topic: 'The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's'
Dr. Grandin, who didn't speak until she was three and a half, was fortunate to receive early speech therapy, learn social skills like turn-taking in board games, and be mainstreamed into kindergarten at five. Her first book, Emergence: Labeled Autistic, offered a unique first-person view of autism. In his best-selling Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks wrote that Grandin's book was unprecedented because there had never been an inside narrative of autism.
