Reminder: Dr Darold Treffert, top expert on autistic savants and consultant on the film Rain Man, online on Awares this Wednesday, October 1, 2008

September 29, 2008

*Dr Darold Treffert, world's leading expert on autistic savants and

consultant on the film Rain Man, will be online to answer your questions on

Awares this Wednesday, October 1, 2008*

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Just a reminder that the series of one-day seminars on Awares - Autism

Cymru's pioneering website - involving the world's leading autism experts

continues this Wednesday, October 1, 2008.

The participant at this fifth online autism seminar 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.

Dr Treffert was consultant on the1988 movie, *Rain Man*, in which

Hoffman won an for his portrayal of an autistic savant.

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

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

Editor

Awares and AutismConnect

adam@...

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Adam Feinstein

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