Dr Darold Treffert, world's leading expert on autistic savants, online on Awares on October 1, 2008

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

www.awares.org/conferences

The series of one-day seminars on Awares - Autism Cymru's pioneering website

- involving the world's leading autism experts continues on October 1, 2008,

The participant at this fifth online autism seminars in 2008 is Dr Darold

Treffert, the world's leading authority on autistic

savants. He has been studying the savant syndrome since he met his first

savant in 1962, when he developed a Children's Unit

at a hospital in Wisconsin, USA. He is a clinical professor in the

Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin and on the staff of

the Behavioural Health Department of St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac,

Wisconsin. He also conducted one of the world's first epidemiological

studies of autism in 1970.

Dr Treffert maintains a very active web site on savant syndrome at

www.savantsyndrome.com through the Wisconsin Medical

Society. He is also author of Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant

Syndrome (1989), the first comprehensive book on

the condition, and has participated in numerous documentaries on savant

syndrome and autistic disorder. He has been studying

the syndrome for nearly 40 years and he was a consultant on the1988 movie,

Rain Man in which Hoffman won an for

his portrayal of an autistic savant. Dr Treffert is a clinical professor at

the University of Wisconsin Medical School and is

on the staff of St Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

The seminar will open at 12.01am British time on October 1, 2008 and run

throughout that day. Don't miss this unprecedented opportunity to put your

questions to Darold Treffert - and please let anyone else know who might be

interested.

You can register right now for this exciting event at

www.awares.org/conferences

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

Editor

Awares and AutismConnect

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Adam Feinstein

http://www.lookingupautism.org