A savant (IPA: /səˈvænt/) is a learned person, well versed in literature or science as well as the fine arts, often with an exceptional skill in a specialized field of learning. The word is a loanword from the French language. Though savants are well learned and can easily specialize in individual fields of study, the opportunities may be out-weighed by the mental, and sometimes physical, drawbacks. Some mental drawbacks include severe symptoms of ADD, Autism, Epilepsy, and Tourettes syndrom. Though the drawbacks are usually severe, in rare cases there have been individuals that have had acute symptoms. All symptoms can be treated, but not cured. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...
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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.
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.
Savant skills are very prominent in many Asperger's persons, certainly as high as in 10% of them, and it is often those highly specialized skills that bring Asperger's persons to prominence.
Savant Syndrome is sometimes abbreviated as "savantism" and individuals with Savant Syndrome abbreviated to savants.
Savant Syndrome is usually recognized during childhood and is found in children with autism and other developmental difficulties.
Some savants have obvious neurological abnormalities (such as the absent corpus callosum in Kim Peek's non-autistic brain), but the brains of most savants are anatomically and physiologically normal; at least, there is no abnormality detectable by modern science.
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