BOOK PROJECT: 'Autistic Students Navigating College'

by Dave Jones
December 30, 2014

'THINKING IN PICTURES'

The book in paperback is available at UC Davis Stores for the discounted price of $11.95.

The 2014-15 Campus Community Book Project resumes the first day of winter quarter with a panel discussion, “Autistic Students Navigating College,” featuring the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, Sacramento Chapter.

The program, free and open to the public, is scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday (Jan. 5) in the Garrison Room at the Memorial Union.

Two more programs are scheduled a week later, one on the Davis campus and one on the Sacramento campus.

Also, a new date has been announced for an open house and art collection tour at the MIND Institute in Sacramento.

This year’s book is Temple Grandin’s Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, under the theme of disability and disability issues. Grandin, an expert in animal behavior who considers her autism a gift, not a disability, is due on the Davis campus on Tuesday, Feb. 10, for two events:

Forum@MC — “Neurodiversity: The Line Between a Difference and a Disability, or Neurotypical in Context,” a panel discussion with Grandin; Susan Rivera, professor, Department of Psychiatry and MIND Institute; and Kristen Loutenstock, doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley. Moderator: Beth Ruyak, host of Insight on Capital Public Radio. 4-5 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Free.
Author’s talk — Based on her book Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism. 8-9:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center. Tickets: in person at the box office; by phone, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787; or online. Book signing will follow in the Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby.

More programs

“Autistext: Rethinking Long-Held Ideas About Language, Rhetoric and What It Means to Tell (a/Autistic) Stories” —Melanie Yergeau, assistant professor, Department of English, University of Michigan. Noon-1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12, Garrison Room, Memorial Union.
“Reducing Health Disparities in Autism Through Action: From Evidence to Policy, Legislation and Practice” — Sergio Aguilar Gaxiola, professor, clinical internal medicine, and director, UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities. Noon-1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12, 1222 Education Building, Sacramento campus.

MIND Institute

Book project organizers announced the new date of Wednesday, Jan. 14, for an open house at the MIND Institute’s Resource Center and tour of the institute’s art collection, consisting entirely of works by artists — children and adults — who have neurodevelopmental disorders.

Open house from noon-3 p.m. and tour at 1 p.m. The MIND Institute is at 2825 50th St., Sacramento campus.

Campus Community Book Project