Darold Treffert Quotes

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.