An Evening with Dr. Temple Grandin
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Temple Grandin to Celebrate the Children School to visit with our students, staff, and CTC community!
Please join us for a VIP Meet & Greet, Community Event & Book Signing the evening of Thursday, November 17th.
A very special thank you to [words] Bookstore, our event sponsor and our official on-site bookstore for the evening. Representatives from [words] will have a variety of Dr. Grandin's books available for purchase. Proceeds from book sales will benefit Celebrate the Children School.
Please join us for a VIP Meet & Greet, Community Event & Book Signing the evening of Thursday, November 17th.
A very special thank you to [words] Bookstore, our event sponsor and our official on-site bookstore for the evening. Representatives from [words] will have a variety of Dr. Grandin's books available for purchase. Proceeds from book sales will benefit Celebrate the Children School.
Registration Options
VIP Meet & Greet with Dr. Temple Grandin
- Enjoy hors d'oeuvres, dinner & time with Dr. Temple Grandin before the main event
- Ticketing option includes the community event & book signing
- Space is limited to 40 people
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- $45
Community Event & Book Signing with Dr. Temple Grandin
- Reserve your seat for a Q&A with Dr. Temple Grandin (be sure to submit your questions for consideration when you register)
- Book Signing
- 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- $25
Location
Celebrate the Children School: 230 Diamond Spring Road, Denville, New Jersey 07834
Purchase Books
If you choose to purchase books before the event, please consider supporting [words] Bookstore.
About Dr. Temple Grandin
Dr. Grandin did not talk until she was three and a half years old. She was fortunate to get early speech therapy. Her teachers also taught her how to wait and take turns when playing board games. She was mainstreamed into a normal kindergarten at age five. Oliver Sacks wrote in the forward of Thinking in Pictures that her first book Emergence: Labeled Autistic was “unprecedented because there had never before been an inside narrative of autism.” Dr. Sacks profiled Dr. Grandin in his best selling book Anthropologist on Mars.
Dr. Grandin became a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior. Today she is a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She also has a successful career consulting on both livestock handling equipment design and animal welfare. She has been featured on NPR (National Public Radio) and a BBC Special – "The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow". She has also appeared on National TV shows such as Larry King Live, 20/20, Sixty Minutes, Fox and Friends, and she has a 2010 TED talk. Articles about Dr. Grandin have appeared in Time Magazine, New York Times, Discover Magazine, Forbes and USA Today. HBO made an Emmy Award winning movie about her life and she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
When she was young, she was considered weird and teased and bullied in high school. The only place she had friends was activities where there was a shared interest such as horses, electronics, or model rockets. Mr. Carlock, her science teacher, was an important mentor who encouraged her interest in science. When she had a new goal of becoming a scientist, she had a reason for studying. Today half the cattle in the United States are handled in facilities she has designed.
Dr. Grandin became a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior. Today she is a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She also has a successful career consulting on both livestock handling equipment design and animal welfare. She has been featured on NPR (National Public Radio) and a BBC Special – "The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow". She has also appeared on National TV shows such as Larry King Live, 20/20, Sixty Minutes, Fox and Friends, and she has a 2010 TED talk. Articles about Dr. Grandin have appeared in Time Magazine, New York Times, Discover Magazine, Forbes and USA Today. HBO made an Emmy Award winning movie about her life and she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
When she was young, she was considered weird and teased and bullied in high school. The only place she had friends was activities where there was a shared interest such as horses, electronics, or model rockets. Mr. Carlock, her science teacher, was an important mentor who encouraged her interest in science. When she had a new goal of becoming a scientist, she had a reason for studying. Today half the cattle in the United States are handled in facilities she has designed.
About [words] Bookstore
As Maplewood’s Bookstore, [words] works tirelessly to ensure the community’s love of books and reading is passed down to future generations. To this end, they offer an extensive selection of books in-store and thousands of e-books.
[words]‘ mission is to serve Maplewood and surrounding communities by offering an engaging and welcoming atmosphere for people and families of all stripes to pursue their literary interests. In particular, they are dedicated to the families in our community that have a member with a developmental disability. They strive to help Maplewood become a model community of inclusion through their treatment of disabled customers and employees, especially those with autism.
To date, [words] has hired over 100 young people with autism as part of our vocational training program.
[words]‘ mission is to serve Maplewood and surrounding communities by offering an engaging and welcoming atmosphere for people and families of all stripes to pursue their literary interests. In particular, they are dedicated to the families in our community that have a member with a developmental disability. They strive to help Maplewood become a model community of inclusion through their treatment of disabled customers and employees, especially those with autism.
To date, [words] has hired over 100 young people with autism as part of our vocational training program.
