Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome

By Donald A. Treffert

Book Overview

Discusses numerous cases of people with severe mental handicaps who nonetheless possess amazing memory, mathematical, artistic, or musical talents, offering new research and theories about the phenomenon of the idiot savant.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345365844
• ISBN13: 9780345365842
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Book

Very well written!!I recommend this to anyone who wants to understand the complexities of savant behavior and autism. Treffert is one of the great writers and speakers on this topic. :)Jeffrey McAndrewauthor of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"