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,… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle. And the same thing with math, and the same thing with art. You'll find people who are geniuses,… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
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… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be, but we… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
