Sentences with phrase «as autistic savants»

In her view, some animals have a form of genius — much as autistic savants can perform feats of memory and calculation far beyond the abilities of average people.
As an autistic savant, writer Daniel Tammet approaches numbers in a brilliantly oblique way.
Recounting his long struggle to emotionally connect with others, Tammet vividly describes his childhood and adolescence as an autistic savant.

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Written in the meticulous voice of an autistic boy and mathematical savant, this moving debut novel traces its hero's travails as he tracks down the killer of his neighbor's poodle.
Evidence for this view comes from autistic children with savant skills such as Nadia.
Touch Fox Kiefer Sutherland (24) returns to TV as a widower whose mute, autistic son, Jake, is a mathematical savant.
He is absolutely brilliant as an autistic doctor, with Savant syndrome, who is fresh out of medical school.
The movie features Tom Cruise as the smooth - talking Charlie Babbitt and Dustin Hoffman (add him to your Best Actor list) as his brother, autistic savant Raymond Babbitt, on a cross-country journey in a 1949 Buick.
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