Planning some travel for the fall or upcoming holidays? If you want to travel but find it challenging with your neurodiversity, then check out our latest Power of 10 video: “10 Trip Tips for a ‘Stress Less’ Vacation” with Temple Grandin School alumni Justin Owens and his mom Christine Keaten....
From Temple Grandin School Co-Founder and Executive Director, Jen Wilger: Since its beginning, TGS has been about relationships. Among the many environmental accommodations provided to neurodiverse students at TGS and elsewhere, “small classes with caring teachers” tops the list. Unless this commitment is in place, other interventions fall short. Our...
Our first week of school is in the books, and we are settling into our routine. We’ve experienced lots of newness this week. At the end of last year, we said goodbye to five seniors who graduated and two students who chose to pursue other educational horizons. This year, we...
Autism…we get it, we live it, we love it! We love many things about our neurodiverse students. Among those things are their passion for a better world and their intelligence and creativity that can lead to solutions. Every quarter at Temple Grandin School, we have two concurrent days we call...
This week we in the United States celebrated the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King stands out in our history as a man who made a tremendous impact on our culture through his nonviolent means of campaigning for civil rights. We also witnessed the inauguration of the...
Welcome to 2021! Perhaps this new year, more than any other most of us have experienced, we hope the next 12 months will treat us better than the last 12 have. The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most memorable, with COVID, racial unrest, nation-wide...