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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780465081417
ISBN: 046508141X
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2002-12
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date: December 24, 2002
Sales Rank: 86343
Studio: Basic Books
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The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject. While many children who talk late suffer from developmental disorders or autism, there is a certain well-defined group who are developmentally normal or even quite bright, yet who may go past their fourth birthday before beginning to talk. These children are often misdiagnosed as autistic or retarded, a mistake that is doubly hard on parents who must first worry about their apparently handicapped children and then must see them lumped into special classes and therapy groups where all the other children are clearly very different.Since he first became involved in this issue in the mid-1990s, Sowell has joined with Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt University, who has conducted a much broader, more rigorous study of this phenomenon than the anecdotes reported in Late-Talking Children. Sowell can now identify a particular syndrome, a cluster of common symptoms and family characteristics, that differentiates these late-talking children from others; relate this syndrome to other syndromes; speculate about its causes; and describe how children with this syndrome are likely to develop.
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Rating:  - The Einstein Syndrome
This was a very interesting and informative book.It gave me, my daughter and son in law hope in that their son is a late talker.So many of the things mentioned in this book fit him to a T.
Rating: - Extremely Helpful
At 14 months old, and after having played with an electric toy for 2 weeks, my son figured out on his own the entire alphabet, shapes, and numbers 1-10. He was fascinated with books and taught himself to read. He was reading before turning 2, and at 2 years old, he was reading hundreds of words. Now at three, he can read thousands of words. He is amazing with puzzles, and according to his teacher, builds incredibly creative and interesting things with toys like blocks or legos. He is very loving ... Read More
Rating: - A later talker with a late talking child
I bought this book with several books about autism spectrum after my son was announced to be on autism spectrum because he started talking at 2 and 7 month. I read all the books and found this book helped me most. My son's doctors saw my child as a speech-delayed child who refused to cooperate on any task. They ignored that he is in a bilingual environment, he loves reading and he picked up those 20 words in 2 months without any therapy. As a late talker myself, I know it is not right to label a ... Read More
Rating: - The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late
This book offers interesting observations about a system that is increasingly quick (too quick) to diagnose children autism.While more is known about autism today, this use of the "autism spectrum" has obvious risks - Namely, if you make a spectrum wide enough, you can put anyone on it.
Our three year old daughter, a late talker with speech difficulties, has been diagnosed with autism - yet she exhibits a number of atypical behaviors for an autistic child.She is affectionate, funny ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting subject
I found the subject of late talking children very interesting and intriging.I have a 21 month old grandson who has not begun to talk at all....not even Mama, DaDa, Bye Bye.He constantly babbles.He has been checked for hearing as well as an overall analysis of his motor skills, social interests, etc., and has come out with an above average rate.We are just interested in how he progresses over the next year or so to see if he has above intelligence.He enjoys working on puzzles that are for 3 or ... Read More
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