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Different Kinds of Minds

A Guide to Your Brain

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Different Kinds of Minds

By: Temple Grandin PhD, Ann D. Koffsky - adaptor
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo, Temple Grandin PhD
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Albert Einstein. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Katherine Johnson. These geniuses are all visual thinkers. Are you?

Do you like puzzles, coding, and taking things apart? Do you write stories, act in plays, slay at Wordle? The things you are good at are clues to how your brain works. Are you good at math? Working with your hands? Are you a neat freak or a big mess?

With her knack for making science easy to understand, Temple Grandin explains different types of thinkers: verbal thinkers who are good with language, and visual thinkers who think in pictures and patterns. You will discover all kinds of minds and how we need to work together to create solutions to help solve real-world problems.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book.

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©2023 Temple Grandin (P)2023 Listening Library Education & Learning Growing Up & Facts of Life Social & Life Skills Social Studies Nonfiction Special need Mathematics Growing Up Human Brain

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"Accessible and engaging, this book has multiple curricular applications and will resonate with independent thinkers."—Booklist
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Few can deny Temple Grandin can explain complex concepts in a user friendly manner. In DIFFERENT KINDS OF MINDS: A GUIDE TO YOUR BRAIN Grandin explains different ways of conceptualizing the world for a younger audience, likely YA readers.

I’ve read a number of Grandin’s books and DIFFERENT KINDS OF MINDS to be repetitive through different chapters. In trying to show the positive sides of autism and neurodiversity, she implies that hers is a superior way of thinking. In one chapter she speaks of disasters she could have prevented if she had been in charge of building a certain bridge or troubleshooting a design failure. I don’t think her intention was to imply she can prevent any problem but that someone who thinks like she does should have been in charge.

Her target audience may be neurodivergent teens who need help understanding their strengths and seeing their differences as good as or superior to their peers. After a few chapters touching on everything from child development to anthropomorphizing animals to airplane building from Piaget to Elon Musk to Einstein.

DIFFERENT KINDS of minds will be helpful to parents of autistic children and neurodivergent young adults.

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Thinking in just pictures has never occurred to me. . . I liked the examples of different kinds of learning.

Different ways of learning

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I love Temple Grandin’s explanation of the different gifts we all bring to the table. It would be great required reading for middle schools.

Everything! Starting it again

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