March 29
Brittany Maier - Austistic Music Savant
I had blogged about Savants
here &
here, and I came across another savant Brittany Maier - who is blind, mentally retarded and autistic. Brittany has more than 20,000 songs in her memory. Watch her
video.
Andrew Adesman, a developmental specialist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, says, "It's not very well understood but there does seem to be an increased incidence of musical savants among individuals who are blind. In musical savants, it seems to be evident in children who have a problem in the midline of the brain, there seems to be a relationship between optic nerve damage or underdevelopment and musical giftedness."
~ Srinath
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