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Blind, autistic and mentally disabled, 16-year-old Brittany Maier disburses her days in darkness, unable to communicate beyond a hardly any words.

still since age 6, Brittany has had the ability to play music upon the piano just by hearing it, and she's been composing her have a title to pieces since she was 10

Now, Brittany, who lives in fresh York, is a top-ranked savant forward the piano with more than 15000 lays in her repertoire, her family says.

She displayed her talent Saturday -- playing at heart everything from Bon Jovi's "Dead or Alive" to Beethoven's "Fur Elise" -- at York Community High denomination in Elmhurst, as part of an Autism Society of Illinois conversation

The cluster says it aims to improve Illinois' ranking as 48th in the nation in providing funding for autism and other developmental disorders.

'God was doing something special'

Born prematurely and given a 5 percent chance of survival, Brittany was able to speak just a handful of words from the time she was 5 Still, from the time she was 1 "music was essential" for Brittany, said her mother, Tammy Maier.

"If you got in the car and you didn't have Dan Fogelberg's greatest hits, you could forget about that ride," Maier said.

At 6 Brittany graduated to playing "Ave Maria" four days after hearing it the first time. Then it was in succession to the entire score of "Phantom of the Opera," the Beatles' "Hey Jude" and other popular music, a certain quantity of of which she played Saturday.

Brittany was a hover of activity on stage, rocking back and forth in succession her piano bench and clapping between anthems Tammy Maier sat close by dint of whispering encouragement and suggestions.

"Sing with me" Brittany said to the common people of 50 during Celine Dion's "My Heart Will journey On."

Tammy Maier recalls being "overwhelmed" through Brittany's skill, which convinced her and her husband, throw that "God was doing something special with our little girl."

"As a parent, I'm not just ostentatious because she's a performer and she's doing something audiences take pleasure in I'm proud of her because she's happy about what she's doing," Maier said. "All she cares about is 'when do I earn to do this again?' "

mjthomas@suntimes.com

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