Temple Grandin - Visual Thinking

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Join Bay View Association as they welcome Temple Grandin on Thursday, July 31st, 2025. Temple Grandin’s New York Times bestseller Visual Thinking reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers. A quarter century after her memoir forever changed how the world understood autism, she now transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired.

One of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism, Temple Grandin has a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois and is a professor at Colorado State University. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, People, National Public Radio, and 20/20. She has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year and one of USA Today’s 2025 Women of the Year, and the HBO movie based on her life and starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards. She has also been instrumental in implementing animal welfare auditing programs that are used by McDonalds, Wendy’s, Whole Foods, and other corporations. Her books Animals in Translation and Visual Thinking have been on the New York Times Bestseller List. Temple was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in September 2017, in 2022 was named a Colorado State University Distinguished Professor, and in 2023 was inducted into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame.