Creativity and Autism Sudarsun Kannan

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Creativity and Autism
Sudarsun Kannan
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Whats Autism Developmental disorder that
appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects
the brain's normal development of social and
communication skillsThinking in PicturesStrong
acceptance among researchers that people with
Autism are gifted to visualize things better and
pictorial representation
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Some well know cognitive models include the
Central Coherence theoryAnother accepted fact
is the ability of autistic people to think on a
subject endlessly without diversion and hence
better creativitySome of the well know legends
are Allan Turing, Ramanujam , Temple Grandin,
animal food handling systems designer and author
Prof. Michael Fitzgerald. Its their creative
activity that keeps them sane
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Project GoalAn empirical study based on
analysis of different case studiesQuantitative
Analysis of case studies and and methods to
measure positive creativity Issues How
to scale positive creativityPossibly a simple
software to allow data collection and allow
construction of suitable model to measure
creativity
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ReferencesCreativity and Imagination in Autism
and Asperger SyndromeJaime Craig1 and Simon
Baron-Cohen1Autism and creativity is there a
link between autism in men and exceptional
Ability By Michael Fitzgerald