“The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.” WayArtShowsQualityGroupsSceneSkillsAreasMathVisualsObsessiveCalendarsProminentSyndromesCalculatingSpatialSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses have the remarkable abilities that the savant shows, but they do not have a disability. So, by definition, a savant includes someone with a disability, and a prodigy or genius are people who have these remarkable skills but they do not have a disability.” PeopleShowsAbilityGeniusSkillsDefinitionsRemarkableDisabilityProdigiesSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.” GeniusSkillsSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“The term syndrome generally appears to be a constellation, or collection, of similar traits or behaviors within an individual. So, savants do have sort of a constellation of symptoms, which is characterized by some spectacular skill, or skills, coupled with this massive memory which is grafted on to some underlying disability. So those three conditions quantify, in my mind, the term syndrome.” MindThreeIndividualTermMemoriesConditionsSkillsBehaviorCollectionsMassiveDisabilityTraitsSymptomsSpectacularConstellationsSyndromesSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.” LeftBrainSkillsEmergenceSyndromesDysfunctionHemisphereSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way from Einstein, emollient scientist, just a little bit of the trait, many scientist and engineers, down to somebody that's going to remain nonverbal.” PeopleWayLittlesBitsSkillsLittle BitScientistDisorderTraitsEngineersAutismVariablesAutisticNonverbalSavantsScientists And Engineers Author:Temple Grandin
“There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They can do calendar calculations. And this is similar to some of the skills that animals have.” PeopleWholeCan DoAnimalCitiesSkillsMapsAutismCalculationsCalendarsSavants Author:Temple Grandin