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"I have found The Einstein Syndrome filled with insight, acute observations, and fertile ideas...This is an invaluable contribution to human knowledge by one of the great minds of our time. "--Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works. 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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Thomas Sowell is Rose and Milton Fri edman Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of S tanford University. He lives in Stanford, Californ ia.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Our son who is four years old cannot speak at all. I bought this book on a recommendation and to my amazement it described my son, not only has it given us hope for a brighter future for our little boy, it has also vanished the feeling of being alone and 'different'. To anyone who has a child in similar circumstances this book would be a invaluable read. It gives insight into why your child may be different and gives many examples of children and adults who have battled through similar situations and have 'caught up', many of which have excelled themselves in many different areas. If this subject is close to your heart then read this book, it shows there may be light at the end of the tunnel after all!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first book I have found and read specifically on Speech and Language delay since my son was diagnosed by his nursery 3.5 years. It has been an uphill battle getting enough appropriate speech and language support since then, with professionals who provided him with repeatative and insulting exercises which we were able to implement more creatively and effectively at home. I read this with an open mind and still do not think by son is an "Eistein" however our son does have circa 90% of the key elements which Sowell defines - eg IT skills, musical and extremely affectionate. This positve booked helped me to continue to fight on sons' behalf.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Do you have a child who is 2 or 3 years old and is not talking, often not performing tasks that you demand from him, and yet you think he is understanding your speech? Does he have first class tantrums? Does he get frustrated because he expects you to understand what he wants without him saying it, and sometimes you don't? Does he go to school and seem to be retarded compared to his peers, not talking and not participating in activities? Is he exceptionally good at solving puzzles, concentrates on tasks he chooses?
Read this book and you might see him described here. He might also be autistic, or have Asperger syndrome, read about those too, but be cautious with early intervention, do the early intervention yourself, spend more time with him, put him to sleep with you in your bed, talk to him, take him on trips and walks, avoid routine, these things can't hurt. I read this book when my child was 2 and not saying one word, not even mama. Now he is 2 and a half and just started talking.
Read this book and you might see him described here. He might also be autistic, or have Asperger syndrome, read about those too, but be cautious with early intervention, do the early intervention yourself, spend more time with him, put him to sleep with you in your bed, talk to him, take him on trips and walks, avoid routine, these things can't hurt. I read this book when my child was 2 and not saying one word, not even mama. Now he is 2 and a half and just started talking.
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refreshing
Good book if you aren't entirely satisfied with the diagnosis given to your late developing child. I found it mostly a book of examples and patterns, but informative all the same.
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by J. Irwin
Great book
This book is a must for parents of children being labelled by professionals as having Autism or global development delay (as my own child has wrongly been. Read more
Published on 26 May 2008 by Mrs. S. Vorster
Could be misleading...
I bought this book a couple of years ago because my son was a late talker. He did interact with his environment and seemed intelligent enough and I thought he was okay, but once he... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2008 by Medusa
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