 Alfred Binet French psychologist Designed a series of tests to measure the mental abilities of school children. Used test to compute average score for each age level

 Stanford-Binet Test  Mental Age  Idea that intelligence increase w age  Louis Terman  Stanford Prof  Used Binet system to measure IQ

  Intelligence Quotient  Measure of brightness by comparing mental age with physical age  100 pt center  Mental age ÷ Physical age × 100 = IQ  6 ÷ 5 × 100 = 120  All adults given the age of 20 IQ

 Wechsler Intelligence Test  David Wechsler  WAIS – adults  WISC – children (6-16)  WPPSI – preschool (4-6)  Subscales (verbal and performance) combine to form IQ score

  Intellectual Disability  Intellectual Developmental Disorder  Adaptive functioning with four levels of severity  Mild, Moderate, Severe, Profound  Causes  Genetic abnormalities – Downs syndrome  Prenatal exposure – alcohol, drugs, chemicals Extremes in Intelligence

Prodigy  Person with exceptional talents or powers that does NOT have an intellectual disability

Bill Gates – Prodigy  Age 45 became richest man in U.S.  Began writing computer programs in 8 th grade  Dropped out of Harvard – created 1 st operating system to run a computer  Microsoft, his company operates on 90% of the world’s computers

Akrit Jaswal – Prodigy  15-year-old India native performed first surgery at age seven. At 11, he became youngest student ever admitted to an Indian university.  IQ of 146

E. Midori – Prodigy  Began violin at age 3  By age 10 – a prodigy  Performed professionally (age 10) with NY Philharmonic  Able to memorize & flawlessly perform long complicated pieces of music.

Gregg Cox - Prodigy  Speaks 64 languages  Began leaning languages age 5  Started with Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German & Mandarin  Now learns about 5 per year  Produced Worlds largest language dictionary in 225 languages. 45,600 pages of nearly 5 million entries which cross references each of 225 languages

Jake Barnett- Prodigy  Age 2 – diagnosed with autism  Started college at 15  Video Video

Savant Syndrome  RARE condition marked by island of brilliance in relation to intellectual disability  Intellectually disabled but also display exceptional skill in a limited domain such as music, art, math, or calculating dates.  Obsessive fixations on particular topics & memorization of trivia can also be present

 By age 2 Nadia had autism diagnosis  Age 3 ½ she began to draw… draw not scribble without training from memory with skill of a talented adult  Draws differently by putting in random details first & then outline last.

Nadia – Age 4 vs. Da Vinci

Nadia – Age 4 vs. Typical 9 year old

Nadia Age 4 vs. Typical 4 year old

 Brittany Maier  16 year old blind, autistic,& mentally disabled musical savant pianist  Memorized over 10,000 pieces including hundreds of originals

Savant Video Clip

SAVANT  Kim Peek  Basis for Rain Man  video video

Kay and Flo  Twins  Autistic  Savants  Video Video