h abilities, none of the extraordinary savant abilities that these autistic individuals demonstrate are based solely on the use of expressive language. More about the language abilities of autistic and autistic savants will be covered later in the paper. Music, numbers, and detailed memory are determined by different parts of the brain from those concerned with speech (Wing, 1985).
             One of the most widely known and outspoken autistic savants is Temple Grandin, a high functioning autistic, who holds a Ph.D. in animal science. She is an assistant professor at Colorado State University, and has designed a third of the livestock handling facilities in the United States. Among her many gifts, Grandin possesses an extraordinary visual memory and thinking style, which she likens to a video library or computer hard drive. In fact, when Grandin designs and builds her livestock handling facilities, she does so in her head, twisting and turning them about in a 3-D fashion, and is then able to test them, knowing the result before a scra
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