The
concept of islet
of ability
is commonly used to refer to an extraordinary skill of a person with
neurological impairments. Some
individuals diagnosed with ASD may present particularly exceptional
or savant skills in specific areas. The percentage of savant
individuals among the total of population with ASD is 10%
(Waterhouse, 2013).
Even
if not all the individuals with ASD are savant, Grandin
(2011, p. 17) affirms that “all minds on the autism spectrum are
detail-oriented, but how they specialize varies”. Also, the author
emphasises that each individual with ASD has an area of strength,
that we can relate to the islet of ability, and an area of deficit;
describing three types of specialized thinking styles that
individuals with ASD have dominantly: a) visual thinking – thinking
in pictures; b) logic thinking – thinking in patterns; c) verbal
thinking – thinking in words.
Following
the same line of though, Happé (1999) emphasises the concept of weak
Central Coherence Theory that refers to
autism as a cognitive style biased towards local, rather than global,
information processing; however this theory is controversial and
there are studies that indicates that it needs more academic
sustainability.
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