Is Orlando An Acquired Savant?

In the movie Charly and the story “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes, the main character,Charlie Gordon, is an adult man who has a mental disability. He doesn't feel like he is smart enough to fit in ,so he gets brain surgery to make him three times smarter. But the operation makes him too smart and he ends up not fitting in. Eventually, the operation wears off and he end up still being mentally disabled. The movie Charly

Imagine being three times smarter than you already are through a simple, painless surgery, but there’s a catch. The effects of the surgery that can make you a genius could be temporary, and have not been studied and may be dangerous. Flowers for Algernon, a short story, describes a character who is intellectually disabled. He has to make a choice between having doctors conduct an experiment that involves surgery on him to make him three times smarter or staying the way he is. Charlie Gordon should not have the surgery because it is highly experimental and theoretical, as well as the negative social effects.

An intellectual disability, like the one had by Roland Johnson and about one percent to three percent of people, is defined as “a disability that is present at birth or occurs in the developmental period (before the age of 18) and is characterized by significant sub-average intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with related limitations in 2 or more areas of adaptive functioning” (Daul). Roland Johnson, though his life was hard, did not let his “limitations” limit him.

Have you ever wanted to know several languages, be able to learn everything easily, or even have an IQ of at least 200? Charlie Gordon, in the story “Flowers for Algernon,” was a man who had an IQ of 68, but he went through a surgery that made him smarter than his own teacher at a school for the mentally challenged, and his own doctors. Charlie’s IQ was tripled after the surgery once he began to practice different languages as well as the English language. Charlie soon reverted to his former self at the end of the story, and this tripled intelligence that he possessed once before was soon back to the IQ of 68 Charlie had it easier in life after the surgery.

Met with Isaac Edward Smith on 03/13/2018 to conduct Diagnostic Interview. Intern Lopez-Ramirez from MRC program and Prince Smith, customer’s father, were in attendance. Isaac would like to be enrolled Project HIGHER because he will graduate from Hanks High School on June 12th and plans to enroll in the Graphics Design program. Isaac reported having Asperger syndrome. He was diagnosed when he was in the third grade and has been attending special education classes since elementary school. The main symptom customer reported was a short attention span. Isaac loses focus in his class after a while and will “drift off” to his own world. As a result, Isaac had been placed in special education classes for science, mathematics, and social studies.

These prodigies, who had reached professional status at a very young age had varying theories of causation ranging from nurture to nature. The results indicated they had elevated level of intelligence, working memory and attention to detail. Interestingly, however, their family pedigrees showed an over-representation of relatives with autism. This indicates a potential commonality between child prodigies and savants genetically leading to the conclusion that child prodigies possess a form of autism but suppress typical signs.

At Bethlehem Lutheran Grade School, the students were separated into two groups; the jocks and the bookworms. Almost immediately when Steve started school, he was in both groups, which wasn’t very common. Steve was extremely smart. He was an excellent mathematician, though he lacked a few skills in language arts. In fact, he was always the first out in hi school spelling bees. But math, that was his forte. In high school, Steve had a professor named Mr. Swartzendruber, who was very strict but still incredibly nice. Steve did so well in his class that Mr. Swartzendruber gave Steve an A+. Before Steve, Mr. Swartzendruber had never given out an A+. Steve was also very athletic, participating in many sports, such as baseball, football, sledding,

Yolanda’s Genius is the story of Andrew Blue, along with his mother and sister. The Blues family is previously from Chicago, Illinois and they just recently moved to Grand River, Michigan. Andrew is seven years old and does not communicate very often with his surroundings and does not know how to read; instead he uses a harmonica to convey language and to express his feelings. One could argue that Andrew has a learning disability from his lack of language abilities and reading capabilities, it could also be argued that Andrew (as his sister Yolanda states) is a musical genius. Which end of the spectrum is Andrew? Is he learning disabled, normal for his age or actually a genius? From the evidence in Yolanda’s Genius and the readings from the textbook, Child Development I have come to the premises that Andrew is in fact a genius with music but at the same time learning disabled due to his problems with semantics, grammar, and pragmatics.

In the book “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, the main character, Charlie Gordon is a mentally retarded 37 year-old man with an IQ of sixty-eight .Charlie Gordon was given a chance to become a genius through an operation. Charlie Gordon was the subject of an experiment that increases the intelligence. The experiment worked and Charlie Gordon became a genius Charlie’s was more mature his memory improved and he developed an imagination, Charlie became aware of how other people were treating him, He is learning faster than he use to do. Before his surgery, Charlie is classified as mentally retarded.

Imagine there being a way to triple your IQ. Now, thanks to the brilliant minds of Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur, there is an operation to do just that. Charlie Gordon, a 37 year-old male with an IQ of 68, was the first to receive this operation. Charlie was just a janitor that didn’t have any family, and attended Miss Kinnian’s Adult Night School. There are, however, people that believe Charlie should not have had this operation.

What if an incredible new medical procedure was developed? This treatment can create an instant genius, except there is a catch. It has never been tested on a human before and may have some… side effects. Charlie Gordon, a man with an intellectual disability, is given the opportunity to be the first human subject for this experiment in the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, but this opportunity is one he should not take. Charlie is a happy man with a happy life but he longs to be intelligent. Two doctors ask him to be the test subject in an experiment to help him reach his goal of being smart. After the surgery, Charlie becomes smarter, but there are other, unexpected results. He realizes that his old “friends”

Savant is a unique form of autism that has its own special skills, which set Savant apart from all other forms of autism. The most common

Of the fifty students, 15 students in the grades of 9th through 12th have a noted mathematical disability. This percentage is comparable to other states and territories, according to Louden et al., 2000) Special Learning Needs Programs varies between states and territories but average 10% to 20% of the general population. Math difficulties range from mild to severe. Research attempting to classify these has yet to be validated or widely accepted, so caution is required when considering descriptions of differing degrees of math disability. (Garnett, 2015) One of the major mathematical disabilities in the local high school is dyscalculia. Dyscalculia is a brain-based math disability that can affect different areas of math learning and performance. (Morin, 2014). Morin (2014) further states that scientist do not know for sure how many people are afflicted with dyscalculia because there is not one set of criteria to classify severe math difficulties and their is not a database containing this information. Other mathematics related disabilities are dyslexia (56% also have problems in math), ADHD, math anxiety, and genetic disorders such as fragile x. The United States is not the only county that seems to have a notable problem, Australia also set-up plans to report and monitor their students with disabilities. Australia reports their disabilities between 3 and 5% of the total school population (van Kraayenoord, Elkins, Palmer, & Rickards, 2000). Like the United States, Australian schools are “under a positive obligation to make changes to reasonably accommodate

Her kindergarten teacher recognized her inability to stay focused compared to her peers. In first grade, Grace took longer to complete assignments, had a tendency to daydream, and had difficulty with paper and pencil tasks which was the most noticable in math. Her first and second grade teachers provided her with additional educational support through small group instruction, and she receives weekly instruction from the reading specialist. Finally, her scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition and Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement show she has deficits in the areas of Working Memory, Passage Comprehension and Math Fluency. Since information has been obtained by a variety of dependable sources, identifying Grace as a learning disable child is

Stephen Hawking is regarded, by the world of science, as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history. Despite his challenging disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), his capacity of knowledge is incomprehensible. Hawking once said, “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” (Hawking This bold statement applies to all of humanity, however, Charlie Gordon, a character in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, is a perfect fit. Charlie qualifies to undergo a surgery to increase his intelligence quotient (IQ) after his dedication in his studies at the Beekman Center for Retarded Adults. This surgery causes his IQ level to reach new