Sentences with phrase «of autistic savants»
Physicist Allan Snyder says you probably can, based on his new theory about the origin of the extraordinary skills of autistic savants
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Miller has also seen physiological similarities in the brains of autistic savants and patients with frontotemporal dementia.
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant.
Christopher Boone is 15, and something of an autistic savant.
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What it's about: When a father dies, his spoiled son inherits only a fraction of his small fortune while his autistic savant brother inherits the bulk of it.
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.
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.
Temple Grandin, professor at Colorado State University and autistic savant, used her unusual abilities to improve the tools of livestock farming.
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson; Scribner, $ 25 Animals may be autistic savants, and autism itself «a kind of way station on the road between animals and humans,» writes animal scientist Temple Grandin.
He is absolutely brilliant as an autistic doctor, with Savant syndrome, who is fresh out of medical school.
In the thriller The Accountant, Ben Affleck stretches to play Christian Wolff, a math savant who can uncook books like nobody's business — and has coped being on the autistic spectrum with his own certain set of skills (Read our review).
He does give the example of «Nadia,» an autistic - savant child who could not speak but was able to create detailed, fully realized drawings by age 4.
A teenage autistic savant narrates his search for the killer of his neighbor's dog, which leads to discoveries about his own life.
Those who enjoyed the resulting narrative voice should pick up The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time, which is told from the point of view of a 15 - year - old boy, Christopher, who is an autistic savant and a math genius.
Daniel Tammet is one of the world's most famous autistic savants, not only because his memory, math, and language skills are so astonishing, but because he can express himself so beautifully and clearly.
Widener is an autistic savant who creates these mixed - media works on paper that give aesthetic, visible form to complex calculations based on the dates of certain historical events — the sinking of the Titanic is one of his favorites.
A small number of individuals with autism will experience extreme aptitude with savant skills (calculating, memorizing, musical talent and others) While the range of total effects will vary, most autistic people will have the following symptoms in common: