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Article Summary for, “The Brother’s Prodigy” from Psychology Today, April 2016
This article gives more depth about autism and children prodigies. It comes close to home when both are compared, especially for family members. The main parts of the story include when there is a child prodigy, there is an autistic child in the same home, they share similar traits. Joanne Ruthstaz, an assistant professor at The Ohio State University, specializes in child prodigies. (psychology today page 77)
She has traveled the country, studying child prodigies. She identified, listened to their back grounds, and studying their cognitive abilities. She figured studying the “extreme achievers” could improve every ones’ understandings of autism and make way for new

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