Rescued by a Cow and a Squeeze: Temple Grandin

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 47 pages
• Published by: PublishAmerica February 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1591298806
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1591298809
• Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 ounces

Mel Levine, M.D., author of "A Mind at a Time"
"An unusual and compelling story [that] captures the vital spirit of resilient individuals. I would certainly recommend this book."

Book Description
Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism and suffered severe learning disabilities as a child. Bright lights and strong smells bothered her, and background noises other people couldnt even hear boomed inside her head. She first encountered cows on a trip to a cattle ranch when she was a teenager and realized that they experience the world in many of the same ways that she did-and were bothered by the same kinds of sights and sounds she was. She determined to find a way to ease their stress. Combining her remarkable ability to create building designs inside her head and her cows eye view of the world, Temple became the foremost designer of humane animal facilities in the U.S. She persuaded fast food chains like McDonalds to adopt her standards for the humane treatment of animals and spurred a revolution in the American meat industry. Temple Grandins life was documented in a PBS documentary entitled "Stairway to Heaven" and by Oliver Sacks in his essay "An Anthropologist on Mars." In Rescued by a Cow and a Squeeze, Medical Reporter Mary Carpenter brings Temples remarkable achievements to children and young adults for the first time