1+Introduction

Introduction to Savants: Created By: Gaetan Lee; Human brain.

**Step Index: Step 1:** Watch Kim Peek video on savants **Step 2:** Read Paragraph on savants **Step 3:** Answer questions about savants:

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Helping to understand Savants:** A boy is playing baseball. The ball is coming at him and his brain automatically guesses at the height of the ball, the speed, and the approximate arrival time with the ball and the bat. A savant on the other hand would know exactly how high the ball is, how fast it is traveling down to the centimeter per tenths of a second, and when precisely he should swing the bat to get the best end result, a homerun. Instead of general facts or statistics, a savant would know exact amounts and specifics. Most savants however, have some kind of PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder) or autism. They may not want to play baseball with the team because they do not derive the same pleasure from it as the average person might.
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**Step 3:** Answer the following questions: 1. Do you think the life of a savant is difficult? 2. Do they face the same everyday struggles as the average person? 3. What is the social behavior of a savant compared to that of regular people? 4. Would you want to be a savant? 5. Would you want to have the extraordinary ability of remembering infinite data, but not be able to tie your own shoes?