A woman whose struggle with autism has been featured on top news shows and in an award-winning HBO film will tell her story at a conference in Vicksburg next week.

Dr. Temple Grandin was one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2010. She has appeared on TV news shows such as “48 Hours,” “Larry King Live” and NBC’s “Today” show. She has been featured in People and Discover magazines, the New York Times and U.S. News and World Report.

Grandin is a high-functioning autistic woman whose books include “Thinking in Pictures,” which describes her personal experiences with the disorder; and two New York Times best-sellers, “Animals in Translation” and “Animals Make Us Human.” Her life story was made into a movie, “Temple Grandin,” which starred Claire Danes and won seven Emmy awards.

“Being autistic, I don’t naturally assimilate information that most people take for granted,” Grandin says in “Thinking in Pictures.”