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Rex Lewis-Clack (born June 24, 1995) is an American pianist, considered a prodigious musical savant.〔Lewis, Cathleen. "Rex--A Mother, her Autistic Child and the Music that Transformed their Lives", 2008, Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 1-59555-150-6〕 == Biography == Rex Lewis-Clack was born in Southern California, the son of Cathleen Lewis and Wasaga Clack. He was born with a cerebral Arachnoid cyst and with a form of blindness called Septo-optic dysplasia. Lewis-Clack began his life education at 6 months of age at The Blind Children's Center in Los Angeles.〔 Given a piano keyboard at the age of two, Lewis-Clack became fascinated, and as he developed musical skills, he also learned to talk and walk.〔http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/25/60minutes/main575161.shtml "Musically Speaking." CBS, 60 Minutes. September 28, 2003〕 He was completely self-taught at the piano until the age of 5, when he began taking lessons. During one of his first lessons, one of two piano teachers showed him one scale, one time, and he played the other 11 scales back that same day. By the age of 7, Lewis-Clack’s piano abilities coupled with both blindness and manifestation of autistic symptoms led to the label “prodigious musical savant.” 〔 “Savant Syndrome is a rare but remarkable condition in which persons with developmental disabilities,have some spectacular 'islands of genius' that stand in marked, jarring contrast to overall limitations.”.〔Treffert, Dr. Darold. , "Ancestral" or "Genetic" Memory: Factory Installed Software. How Do Prodigious Savants Know Things They Never Learned? Maybe Carl Jung was right http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant_syndrome/savant_articles/genetic_memory. Retrieved 2/24/2012〕A prodigious savant has skills that are so remarkable that they would be termed at a ‘prodigy’ or ‘genius’ level if present in a non-disabled person). The prodigious savant represents a very high threshold group and there are probably fewer than 100 such known persons living worldwide at the present time. Lewis-Clack has been educated in the public school system, since age 5.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rex Lewis-Clack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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