1. Creativity and Autism Sudarsun Kannan

2. What’s Autism Developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain's normal development of social and communication skills Thinking in Pictures Strong acceptance among researchers that people with Autism are gifted to visualize things better and pictorial representation

3. Some well know cognitive models include the Central Coherence theory Another accepted fact is the ability of autistic people to think on a subject endlessly without diversion and hence better creativity Some 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 “

4. Project Goal An empirical study based on analysis of different case studies Quantitative Analysis of case studies and and methods to measure positive creativity Issues – How to scale positive creativity Possibly a simple software to allow data collection and allow construction of suitable model to measure creativity

5. References Creativity and Imagination in Autism and Asperger Syndrome Jaime Craig1 and Simon Baron-Cohen1 Autism and creativity: is there a link between autism in men and exceptional Ability By Michael Fitzgerald