Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function. — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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",… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I… — 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.… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk… — 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
