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"Readers will share the author's feelings of bewildered awe as they meet the 'extraordinary people' and the families who help these phenomenally gifted, but otherwise cruelly deprived, savants," reported PW. Author tour.
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"Readers will share the author's feelings of bewildered awe as they meet the 'extraordinary people' and the families who help these phenomenally gifted, but otherwise cruelly deprived, savants," reported PW. Author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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For the first time in Extraordinary People, the psychiatrist who was a consultant to the movie Rain Man, collects the most fascinating cases of Savant Syndrome both in history and modern times.
Dr. Treffert documents the spectacular abilities—the islands of genius—in these remarkable persons, and describes as well the love, determination and dedication of their equally remarkable families, teachers and caretakers. He shares the observations of the far-reaching implications this astonishing condition has for understanding brain function and hidden potential in all of us.
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early infantile autism, calendar calculating ability, prodigious savant, talented savant, new savants, savant memory, savant group, savant syndrome, savant skills, eidetic imagery, savant abilities, calendar calculators, musical savant, many savants, memory circuitry, other savants, right brain skills, calculating skills, musical inventiveness, autistic patients, retrolental fibroplasia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leslie Lemke, Blind Tom, Explaining the Inexplicable, Raymond Babbitt, Dustin Hoffman, Asperger's Syndrome, Great Vigor of Memory, United States, Bernard Rimland, May Lemke, The Genius of Earlswood Asylum, Colonel Bethune, Richard Wawro, Edward Sequin, Real Life, Oliver Sacks, Gottfried Mind, Alonzo Clemons, Langdon Down, Quiz Kids, Fond du Lac, New York, Arthur Phillips, Macdonald Critchley, James Henry Pullen Browse Sample Pages:
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- Some Kind of Genius: The Extraordinary Journey of Musical Savant Tony DeBlois by Janice DeBlois on 4 pages
- The Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing by Karen Siff Exkorn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant by Gregory L. Blackstock in Front Matter
- Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind by Larry Dossey in Back Matter
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