Dr Temple Grandin - Great Minds are Not All The Same

The Paramount Theatre is pleased to present

Dr Temple Grandin

Great Minds are Not All The Same

Taking place Wednesday, October 14th, 2026 at 7 PM

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world. Her life was brought to the screen with the HBO full-length film Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences September 2016, featured on NPR, and she has a 2010 TED Lecture titled “The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds.” She has also been featured on the BBC special “The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow”, ABC’s “Primetime Live”, “The Today Show” and more. Grandin developed her talents into a successful career as a livestock-handling equipment designer, one of very few in the world. She also speaks on both autism and cattle handling. Dr. Grandin’s current bestselling book on autism is Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions. She also authored The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s; Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships; Animals Make Us Human; Animals in Translation; Thinking in Pictures; and Emergence: Labeled Autistic. Grandin is considered a philosophical leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements.