My son Quinn's teacher says he is now able to multiply millions by hundreds of thousand without the use of a
calculator!!!!!!
My son Quinn MVP in the Autism game I am so happy!
Quinn is suspected by his specialists to be a savant, if we can harness it properly he could be a billionaire!
Savant Syndrome is a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disorders, including autistic disorder, have astonishing islands of ability, brilliance or talent that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to overall limitations.
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Ruthlyn James of Adonijah a school with amazing methodologies of having students with intellectual challenges excel poses with her squaddie Quinn Smith the REAL BIG MAN ! they look so cute!
The condition can be congenital (genetic or inborn), or can be acquired later in childhood, or even in adults. The savant skills co-exist with, or are superimposed upon, various developmental disabilities including autistic disorder, or other conditions such as mental retardation or brain injury or disease that occurs before (pre-natal) during (peri-natal) or after birth (post-natal), or even later in childhood or adult life. The extraordinary skills are always linked with prodigious memory of a special type — exceedingly deep but very, very narrow.
