TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hermelin,Beate
TI  - Bright splinters of the mind: a personal story of research with autistic savants 
SN  - 1853029319 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - RC553.A88 H475 2001
U1  - 153.9 HER
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, Philadelphia
PB  - J. Kingsley
KW  - Autism
KW  - Research
KW  - Savants (Savant syndrome)
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Autistic children
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy034/2001029113.html
ER  -