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 Temple’s 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...

and:

...Temple’s 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 Father’s Moving Photo Study of Autistic Son and His Classmates." The event will also include a silent auction to raise funds for the school’s 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.