January 19, 2006
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I had previously posted about 12-year-old Malaysian autistic savant Yeak Ping Lian so it was good to read that he's in NY participating in an exhibition, Autistic Savant Artworks: Don’t ‘dis’ the Ability at
the Henry Gregg Gallery in Brooklyn on Saturday. Ping Lian’s work
is being shown together with 2 other well known autistic savant artists
Richard Wawro of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Iranian-born Christophe Pillault of Olivet, France.Autism educator and networker Dr Lawrence Becker of Creative Learning Environments, Austin, Texas, praised the trio saying they embodied the “quality and persistence of the human spirit.”
I was going to say that 'persistence' was also a quality that Ping
Lian's mom possessed in spades, because she believed in him enough
to put her own interest second to her child's. Ping Lian could
never quite fit in conventional schools so his mother Sarah Lee
had him homeschooled, supplemented by additional special needs
tuition, and especially art.Related link: Wisconsin Medical Society
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