Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants /
Hermelin, Beate.
Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants / Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Michael Rutter. - London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, 2001. - 188 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Foreword, Sir Michael Rutter --1. Outline --2. Talent and Intelligence --3. Autism and Special Abilities --4. Poetry --5. Foreign Languages --6. Calendar Calculations --7. Date Memory --8. Numbers --9. Drawing --10. Pictorial Strategies --11. Two Savant Artists --12. Musical Memory and Improvisation --13. Autism and Savant Ability Revisited -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.
1853029319 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1853029327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001029113
Autism--Research.
Savants (Savant syndrome)--Case studies.
Autistic children--Case studies.
RC553.A88 / H475 2001
153.9
Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants / Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Michael Rutter. - London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, 2001. - 188 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Foreword, Sir Michael Rutter --1. Outline --2. Talent and Intelligence --3. Autism and Special Abilities --4. Poetry --5. Foreign Languages --6. Calendar Calculations --7. Date Memory --8. Numbers --9. Drawing --10. Pictorial Strategies --11. Two Savant Artists --12. Musical Memory and Improvisation --13. Autism and Savant Ability Revisited -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.
1853029319 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1853029327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001029113
Autism--Research.
Savants (Savant syndrome)--Case studies.
Autistic children--Case studies.
RC553.A88 / H475 2001
153.9