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Musical Memory and Autism
By Mike Ryan

The recent postings regarding autism reminded me of a Wisconsin fellow
named Leslie Lemke.  Leslie was severely retarded and blind.  However,
as the story goes, he sat down at the piano one night and began to play
a piece of classical music he had heard for the first time on TV that
evening.  I saw Leslie on TV a few times and was quite amazed.

The term for this ability is "Savant Syndrome".  Here is a link to
an interesting article on the topic, and to an article about Leslie:

  http://www.wismed.com/foundation/islands.htm
  http://www.wismed.com/foundation/lemke.htm

Mike Ryan
Milwaukee WI


(Message sent Wed 29 Dec 1999, 13:18:03 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

Key Words in Subject:  Autism, Memory, Musical

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