Teacher forms group to reach disabled

Dun-dun-dundun.

David Fenton, a teacher at Clark Montessori High School in Winton Hills, looks over at music therapist Betsey Zenk.

"Do you know what this is?"

"No," she says.

Neither teacher is surprised. Dodd's done this before. In fact, Zenk first learned her former student had a gift when he returned from winter break three years ago, plopped down in front of a piano and began to play the first aching notes of "Moonlight" Sonata - in the key in which Beethoven wrote it.

That would have been remarkable from any student, but it was especially striking coming from Dodd. The tall, handsome student from Kenwood communicates mostly in grunts, hums and echoes.

Dodd is autistic.