Darold A. Treffert

Foreword by Daniel Tammet. Preface. Introduction: Sightseeing on an Incredible Journey. Part 1. The Mind of the Savant. 1. What We Do Know: A Rare but Remarkable Condition. 2. How Do They Do It? Some Earlier Theories from Heredity to Quantum Theory. 3. How Do They Do It? More Recent Findings: Rewiring, Recruitment and Release. 4. Genetic Memory: How Do We Know Things We Never Learned? 5. More Medical Mysteries: Calendars, Cantors, Foreign Accents and Hypermensia. Part 2. The World of the Savant. 6. The Genius of Earlswood Asylum and Blind Tom: Some Early Savants. 7. Leslie and May: "Two Memorable People". 8. Alonzo: "God Gives the Gift". 9. George: It's Fantastic I Can Do That". 10. Kim: "The Real Rain Man". 11. Ellen: "With a Song in Her Heart". 12. Tony: "Against All Odds". 13. Temple: "An Emergence Extraordinaire". 14. Matt: "In the Key of Genius". 15. Flo and Kay: An Unforgettable "Two of a Kind". 16. Daniel: "Numbers Are My Friends". 17. Stephen: "A Rocket of Young Talent". 18. Ping Lian, Gregory, Richard and Some Others: Artwork of the Prodigious Savant. 19. Raymond Babbit in Rain Man: The World's Best Known Savant. Part 3. Significant New Dimensions to Savant Syndrome. 20. "Accidental Genius": The Acquired Savant. 21. "Sudden Genius": An Epiphany of Talent. 22. "Normal Genius": Dormant Skills Within Us All? 23. Accessing the "Inner Savant" Within Us All. 24. The Bountiful Brain: Half a Brain (Or Less) May Be Enough. Part 4. Training the Talent: "I've Got a Son or Daughter Who...". 25. Music: Teaching Music to the Special Needs Client: A Music Therapist's Approach. 26. Art: "Training the Talent" in Art and Other Skills: An Educator's Approach. 27. Mathematics: Teaching Autistic Numerical Savants: A Specific Approach that Worked. Part 5. Our Journey Has Just Begun. 28. New Tools and New Optimism: The Trail Ahead for the Mind of the Savant. 29. Oval Souls on a Round Planet: The Trail Ahead for the World of the Savant. References. Appendix: Books About, and Books By, Savants. Subject Index. Author Index.