Autism and Talent

Why do many autistic people develop outstanding abilities in domains like drawing, music, computation, and reading? What aspects of autism predispose some to talent? This book explores the origin and prevalence of exceptional talent, its basis in the brain, the current theories, and the representation of talent and autism in biography and fiction.

(Oxford)

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Doody's Notes It is fascinating reading for clinicians, researchers, and families of autistic individuals

(Oxford)

1. Introduction: The beautiful otherness of the autistic mind; 2. The savant syndrome: an extraordinary condition; 3. Savant skills in autism: psychometric approaches and parental reports; 4. What aspects of autism predispose to talent?; 5. Talent in autism: hyper-systemizing, hyper-attentin to detail, and sensory hypersensitivity; 6. Enhanced perception in savant syndrome: patterns, structure, and creativity; 7. Perception and appreception in autism: rejecting the inverse assumption; 8. Explaining and inducing savant skills: privileged access to lower level, less processed information; 9. Talent in the taxi: a model system for exploring expertise; 10. Do calendrical savants use calculation to answer date questions? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study; 11. A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder; 12. Radical Cytoarchitecture and patterns of cortical connectivity in autism; 13. How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? A personal account; 14. Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants; 15. Precocious realists: perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children; 16. Outsider Art and the Autistic Creator; 17. Autistic Autobiography; 18. Stereotypes of Autism

(Oxford)