Eustacia Cutler, Mother Of Temple Grandin Will Speak Tuesday At Roosevelt Island’s Child School – Learn About Life With Autism

Eustacia Cutler Event of May 11(18)

Roosevelt Island resident Jim Luce, Founder and CEO of the Jim Luce Stewardship Report and Orphans International Worldwide , alerts us to this article he wrote for the Daily Kos:

Eustacia Cutler will be in New York City, on Roosevelt Island underneath the 59th Street Bridge, for a one-on-one conversation with the public. Eustacia is mother to world renowned autistic advocate Temple Grandin, Ph.D. Temple is considered the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. HBO released Temples auto-biography this past March. Temple presented this year at TED. From Boston, Temple is 62 years old. As a person with high-functioning autism, Temple is the inventor of the hug machine squeeze-box designed to calm the hypersensitive…

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…Temples mother Eustacia Cutler will at The Child School/Legacy High School auditorium this Tuesday, May 11, at 6:00pm at 566 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York City. There will also be a special photography exhibit by Paul O. Colliton entitled “A Fathers Moving Photo Study of Autistic Son and His Classmates.” The event will also include a silent auction to raise funds for the schools programming. The Child School is a non-profit organization and event donations are restricted for student learning tools and activities. For further information contact Camille Mouquinho at The Child School by e-mail.

More information available at the Roosevelt Island Child School web site. Temple Grandin’s presentation to TED Conference on Autism and how the autistic mind works is below.