| farah ashraf |
A university professor, zoologist at Colorado State University, and author, she was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard Grandin and Eustacea Cutler. She was diagnosed with autism in 1950. She was placed in a special nursery after doctors diagnosed her with brain damage. She says she had good teachers there, and her mother spoke with a doctor who suggested treatment for her speech difficulties. She had a private nanny who spent hours playing with Grandin and her sister. Grandin graduated from Hampshire Country School, a boarding school for gifted children in New Hampshire, in 1966, and went on to Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire to earn a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1970. She earned a master's degree in zoology from Arizona State University in 1975 and a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1989. Grandin, who has autism, is best known for her work helping those with the same condition, inventing a machine designed for people with hypersensitivity, and a 2010 biographical film was produced about her.
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