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Historically, individuals with these exceptional skills were called 'idiot savants,' a French term meaning unlearned (idiot) skill (savant). In a 1978 article in Psychology Today, Dr. Bernard Rimland introduced a more appropriate term 'autistic savant,' which is the current label.
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It is thought that there are only about 25 autistic savants in the world who show prodigious skills. These skills could include, for example, the ability to play an entire concerto on the piano after hearing it only once...
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Today, at 27, Paravicini is acknowledged as one of only 23 autistic savants in the world. He is one of those rare people with severe learning difficulties, who is a genius in one particular area. He can neither count to 10 nor tell left from right.
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autisticsavant.blogspot.com/
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Autistic savant Daniel Tammet shot to fame when he set a European record for the number of digits of pi he recited from memory (22,514). For afters, he learned Icelandic in a week. But unlike many savants, he's able to tell us how he does it.
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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). Its etiology can be either congenital or the result of disease or injury to the central nervous system (CNS).
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Autistic Savant or Savant Syndrome, a Challenging Disorder ... The autistic savant is a cognitive phenomenon in psychology. The term "autistic savant" refers to an individual with autism who has an extraordinary skill, ... It is thought that there are only about 25 autistic savants in the world who show prodigious skills.
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Click here to start ... Table of Contents ... What Is Autism?
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First, the savants and controls did not differ on a measure of visual sustained attention. Second, the savants failed to detect rare auditory targets significantly more than did the controls. ... Autistic Disorder [psychology]
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