Bright Splinters Of The Mind: A Personal Story Of Research With Autistics Savant; Author: Hermelin, Beate; Paperback

Author: Hermelin, Beate
Paperback; 16 Colour Illustrations, Index
188 pages
Published: April 2001
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1853029327

Brought to general attention by Rainman, and a subject of endless fascination, the extraordinary talents of some people with autism are well-documented, yet little is understood about the nature of their gifts. Drawing on 20 years of research, Beate Hermelin describes not just what autistics savant do, but explains how they do it. She discusses the nature of the talents of savants who are gifted at poetry, foreign language acquisition, the visual arts, music, and calendar and numerical calculations. Not just an exploration of autistic gifts, Bright Splinters of the Mind is a book that reaches radical conclusions on the very nature of talent and its relationship to intelligence.A personal story of research with Autistic Savants. In this text, Beate Hermelin describes her investigations and explores the gifts of autistic savants, in the areas of poetry, foreign language acquisition, the visual arts, music and mathematics, and reaches radical conclusions on the very nature of talent and its relationship to intelligence.