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In 2010, Temple Grandin was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. She has changed how the 70 billion dollar beef industry treats animals, and the way people think about autism.
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Alonzo Clemons does not have the ability to read or write, but he does possess an elaborate talent of creating detailed sculptures in just minutes of something he saw only for a split second.
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Cutting-edge Harvard research is hoping to help this mechanical savant overcome the social difficulties Asperger's presents by increasing his ability to empathize.
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Robert Gagno is both an autistic young man and one of the top-ranked pinball players in the world. He journeys to the Mayo Clinic to meet with a neurologist to examine how his brain is hard-wired for pinball wizardry.
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Derek Amato is one of the world's only acquired savants after a brain injury left him with the amazing ability to play piano, an instrument he had never played before. But now the music never stops.
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George Widener is a calendar calculating savant with Asperger Syndrome. He found a release for the constant calculations running through his mind in art, and now his work is shown in galleries around the world.
About Ingenious Minds
Enter the lives of savants: individuals who possess an extraordinary ability in areas such as art, music and mathematics, while also suffering from intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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