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	The Savant Academy
		A savant is someone with a mental/cognitive disability who, at the same time, demonstrates special skills, intelligence, or aptitudes.
		Savants may demonstrate, for example, an ability to recite pages of text on a single hearing, to multiply six-digit numbers in their head, or to memorize and perform any song played for them just once.
		Savant Syndrome should be regarded as a ‘spectrum’ diagnosis, encompassing many levels of competence.
	www.savantacademy.org (1070 words)

	Autistic savant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An autistic savant (historically described as idiot savant) is an autistic person with extraordinary mental abilities not found in most people [1], often in arithmetic calculation and memory feats but sometimes in art or music.
		True savantism is usually recognized during childhood and is found in children with autism and occasionally in children with other developmental difficulties.
		Some savants have obvious neurological abnormalities (such as the absent corpus callosum in Kim Peek's non-autistic brain), but the brains of most savants are anatomically and physiologically normal; at least, there is no abnormality detectable by modern science.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autistic_savant (839 words)

	Autistic savant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		An autistic savant (formerly called idiot savant) is a person who expresses extraordinary mental abilities often in the fields of calculation (not to be confused with mathematics) also mental calculator) art or music but usually set within the context autism or mental retardation.
		Autistic savantism is usually recognised during childhood is often but not always found in autistic children.
		savants have obvious neurological abnormalities but the brains of most such individuals savants are and physiologically normal.
	www.freeglossary.com /Autistic_savant (765 words)

	Autistic savant
		Savant skills are occasionally found in people with other types of intellectual disability and in the non-disabled population, so most researchers use the term 'savant syndrome' instead of autistic savant.
		CT and MRI scans of the brains of autistic savants suggest that the right hemisphere is compensating for damage in the left hemisphere.
		Savant skills can be occasionally found in people with other types of intellectual disability and in the non-disabled population.
	www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au /bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Autistic_savant?OpenDocument (870 words)

	Autism Autistic -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		An autistic savant (more commonly known as an idiot savant) is a person who expresses extraordinary mental abilities, often in the fields of numerical calculation (not to be confused with mathematics) (mental calculator), art, or music but usually set within the context of autism or mental retardation.
		When one has an extraordinary single skill in an otherwise unexceptional intellect, he or she may simply be described as a ''savant,'' without qualifier, although ''savant'' is usually meant to mean a person of learning, especially one of great knowledge in a particular subject, without remarking on the person's overall state of intellect.
		An idiot savant is not the same as a savant, as evidenced by the oxymoronic pairing of the term "idiot" with "savant".
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/9/autism-autistic.html (1044 words)

	AUTISM AND SAVANT SYNDROME
		Instead, this boy is diagnosed with Savant Syndrome, a disorder in which individuals with neurological developmental delays in socialization and communication (3) possess "astonishing islands of brilliance that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to the over-all handicap" (6).
		The occurrence of "these [autistic savants] comets of genius across the sky of man's mental universe" has been noted for centuries, but were simply noted by the French as "idiot savants," or "wise fools" (10).
		Abnormalities have been found in the brains of autistics in comparison to those of non-autistic individuals, such as hypoplasia, where the VII and VI lobules of the cerebellum are significantly reduced in size (4).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro01/web2/Shah.html (1950 words)

	Savant Syndrome - Definition, Description, Demographics, Causes and symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis, ...
		Children with savant syndrome have an exceptional talent or skill in a particular area, such as the ability to process mathematical calculations at a phenomenal speed.
		Savant syndrome is diagnosed when a child's ability in one area is exceptionally higher than would be expected given his or her IQ or general level of functioning.
		The underlying disorders that usually accompany savant syndrome need to be treated, and it is believed that making use of the special talent of the child with savant syndrome may help treat the child's underlying developmental disorders.
	www.healthofchildren.com /S/Savant-Syndrome.html (696 words)

	The Autism Home Page
		Then we read the statistics that autistic savant syndrome may affect only 10 percent of those with autism and we begin to accept reality (at least until we see the buds of genius again).
		Savant Syndrome is Doc's Lifetime Study - An article from the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times about Dr. Darold Treffert.
		Paleolithic Art and Autism - Paul Trehin's essay on the similarity between the art of autistic savants and the prehistoric art found in caves throughout the world.
	groups.msn.com /TheAutismHomePage/savantsyndrome.msnw (972 words)

	Savant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the author see Marilyn vos Savant, or for the comic book characters see DC Comic's Savant or Wildstorm's Savant.
		A savant (IPA: /səˈvænt/) is a learned person, well versed in literature or science, often with an exceptional skill in a specialized field of learning.
		The term is also commonly used as an abbreviation of autistic savant, formerly "idiot savant".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Savant (109 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Weekend \| A genius explains
		Scans of the brains of autistic savants suggest that the right hemisphere might be compensating for damage in the left hemisphere.
		Autistic savants have displayed a wide range of talents, from reciting all nine volumes of Grove's Dictionary Of Music to measuring exact distances with the naked eye.
		And the British savant Stephen Wiltshire was able to draw a highly accurate map of the London skyline from memory after a single helicopter trip over the city.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html (2505 words)

	neurodiversity.com \| savant syndrome
		The estimated prevalence of savant abilities in autism is 10%, whereas the prevalence in the non-autistic population, including those with mental retardation, is less than 1%.
		The evidence for this includes biological correlates of specific abilities, certain rare abilities in autistic savants, and the seemingly spontaneous emergence of exceptional abilities in young children, but there is also contrary evidence indicating an absence of early precursors of high skill levels.
		Savant skills occur within a narrow but constant range of human mental functions, generally in six areas: calendar calculating; lightening calculating and mathematical ability; art, music, mechanical abilities; and spatial skills.
	www.neurodiversity.com /savant.html (1490 words)

	anthro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Savant is a French word for "to know" or "man of learning." An Idiot Savant is a person with physical and mental disabilities who has exceptional talent in a specific field.
		Savant symptoms can also appear in children with childhood schizophrenia, but the percentage is not as high as the autistic group.
		Savants are rare, 1:2000 in an institutionalized developmentally disabled population (Treffert, 1989).
	www.umm.maine.edu /resources/beharchive/beh450/MarleneHall/anthro.html (1691 words)

	“Autistic Savants”
		Autistic savants are individuals with an amazing skill or ability that most people do not have.
		Mark was one of the savants to help with the film Rainman, which I further talk about at the end of the paper.
		This is true with any autistic savant who has mathematical abilities, they can process the square root of 12034 in a matter of seconds; however, simple mathematics are very difficult for them to understand.
	tiger.towson.edu /users/kcount1/researchpaper.htm (1742 words)

	The Inner Savant - - science news articles online technology magazine articles The Inner Savant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.
		Savants like Nadia show the ability to perform unusual feats of illustration or calculation when they are younger than 6.
		When he performed brain-imaging studies on an autistic savant artist who started drawing horses at 18 months, he saw abnormalities similar to those of artists with frontotemporal dementia: decreased blood flow and slowed neuronal firing in the left temporal lobe.
	www.discover.com /issues/feb-02/features/featsavant (3055 words)

	Center for the Study of Autism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The autistic savant is one of the most fascinating cognitive phenomena in psychology.
		The estimated prevalence of savant abilities in autism is 10%, whereas the prevalence in the non-autistic population, including those with mental retardation, is less than 1%.
		Some autistic individuals with savant abilities are incredible artists.
	www.autism.org /savant.html (588 words)

	Autism Today, latest news and resources for autism and autism related issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		By Darold A. Treffert, M.D. Savant Syndrome is a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disabilities, including Autistic Disorder, have astonishing islands of ability or brilliance that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to the over-all handicap.
		Savant skills occur within a narrow but constant range of human mental functions, generally in six areas: calendar calculating; lightening calculating and mathematical ability; art (drawing or sculpting); music (usually piano with perfect pitch); mechanical abilities; and spatial skills.
		It is also important to point out that the savant in the movie is a high functioning person with autistic disorder, but the disorder consists of an entire spectrum of disabilities ranging from profoundly disturbed to high functioning; not all autistic savants function at such a high level.
	www.autismtoday.com /articles/SavantSyndrome.asp (1648 words)

	Jennifer Foglia
		Idiot Savant is defined as ìan offensive term for somebody who has a psychiatric disorder or a learning problem but who is exceptionally gifted in one particular area, for example, rapid mental calculation, architectural drawing, or remembering facts.
		Although autistic savants have more to offer than an autistic person, savants are still, for the most part, steered by their autistic life.
		When autistic savants are not using their talent others can only see and treat them as any typical, ìnot normalî person who happens to be autistic.
	english.montclair.edu /isaacs/Engl105Fall2001/Essays/6Foglia.html (1826 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Doctor Diagnoses 5-year-old Chinese Autistic Savant
		Hao Hao, a preschooler from Hefei city, Anhui province displays such remarkable abilities of recall that he is considered to be a “genius,” yet he is unable to communicate verbally and has not been able to learn simple math.
		According to medical diagnoses, he is an autistic savant, similar to the character portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the movie "Rainman."
		Autistic children generally show signs of developmental disability before they reach age 3 and they are often engaged in repetitive activities.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-5-2/21194.html (357 words)

	AWARES Conference Centre :: Papers
		Savant syndrome is a rare, but extraordinary, condition in which persons with serious mental disabilities, including autistic disorder, have some “island of genius” which stands in marked, incongruous contrast to overall handicap.
		Savant syndrome is preferable to “autistic savant” since only about 50% of persons with savant syndrome have autistic spectrum disorder and the other 50% have some other forms of CNS injury or disease.
		However these newer neuro-psychiatric theories seem more to describe the autistic person, rather than explain him or her, and they do not account for the fact that, with respect to savant syndrome, only 50% of such persons are autistic, and the remainder have other developmental disabilities or other CNS disorders or disease.
	www.awares.org /conferences/show_paper.asp?section=000100010001&conferenceCode=000200010007&id=31&full_paper=1 (7233 words)

	Phenomenal talent - the autistic kind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The fact that savant abilities are associated with the five primary senses suggests, that in autism, the right cerebral hemisphere favours the development of the products of the five senses at the expense of the mediation of the left cerebral hemisphere.
		What is peculiar to the ability in the savant is its shaping in relative intellectual isolation, existing in a vacuum, and cut off by its nature from the wellspring of common human experience which language provides through human social interaction.
		The savant's visual memory capacity is unlimited and allows the autistic brain to store an endless amount of visual information, partly explaining why mastery of chess is aided by a memory for game moves that is clearly unfathomable when it comes to recalling and employing past winning strategies of memorized games.
	www.nexus.edu.au /teachstud/gat/hendric1.htm (3915 words)

	Digg - Unique autistic savant describes how his mind works
		I remember watching this guy on Channel 4 here in the UK, and I was amazed as I've always thought that autistic people, as was said in the show, have an inability to engage in social activities (as was also noted in the Kim Peek programme that was also on Channel 4).
		This article saysthere are 50 savants and all male, but I saw a special on a little girl who can play piano amazingly, so I don't know, but very very very cool article.
		The original term applied to these autistic people was "idiot savants", to convey both their gifts and disabilities.
	www.digg.com /health/Unique_autistic_savant_describes_how_his_mind_works (4980 words)

	SCIENTISTS 'LOCATE BRAIN AREA' INVOLVED IN AUTISTIC SAVANT SYNDROME
		Dr Snyder says the savants have their gifts, because of this "malfunction" of the brain, not in spite of it.
		Savants, he said, were able to access certain parts of the brain most people could not.
		The scientists believe this is possible because, instead of his brain processing details of information, such as identifying a building or recognising it, he can tune in to all the complex mental processes that lie behind that recognition, and copy them.
	www.webspawner.com /users/asperger/genius.html (661 words)

	autistic
		Despite the historical label of "idiot savant", autistic savants usually have IQ's within the average to above average range (Donnelly and Altman, 1994).
		An excellent source for further information on a current day autistic savant can be found at www.wawro.net This is the home page of Richard Wawro, a gifted artist who is also autistic.
		She is also the author of several books and articles on being autistic.
	www.twicegifted.net /autistic.htm (330 words)

	Palaeo_art_autistic_savant_syndr
		Chandler's research is however encompassing the wider spectrum of ”Savant syndrome” and his analysis of the phenomenon is highly questionable.
		The realism of the drawings, common to prehistoric artists and autistic artists, is one key point that is in contradiction with the shamanistic trance hypothesis, even in the examples given by Clottes and Lewis-Williams, drawings made by people in a trance are never realistic.
		Actually some artworks are of a very different style than the purely naturalistic representations and could have been created by some people imitating the drawings of the “prehistoric autistic savants”.
	perso.orange.fr /gilles.trehin.urville/palaeo_art_autistic_savant_syndr.htm (3217 words)

	A genius explains - [an autistic savant describes how he thinks]
		A small quibble with this sentence from the article: "Now he is 26, and a mathematical genius who can figure out cube roots quicker than a calculator and recall pi to 22,514 decimal places." Tammet is not a mathematical genius, as human calculating prodigies almost never are.
		another quick thought: as the "savant" capability seems to be associated with a brain injury or similar incapacity, one is tempted to use as a model a computer where you disable most of the overhead functions in the OS that are normally needed for it to be a general purpose device.
		It's the opposite of multitasking -- these folks are programmed for one class of functions -- sort of like a CRAY super computer; as I understand it, the speed is derived in part from the fact they are set up as vector processors, and that's all they do.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1346998/posts (4767 words)

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