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The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late By Thomas Sowell ( Basic Books )
Release Date: 2002-12
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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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 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.
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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 and loves to be cuddled and kissed. While he understands everything we say, he does not want to talk much, and only talks when he wants something. There were suggestions from his preschool of autism because of his speech delay. This has brought my husband and myself a great deal of anguish.
We saw a specialist who considered him gifted and suggested that we look into the development of Eistein as a young boy. Also, she said gifted children tend to develop unevenly.
This book has really been very helpful and reassuring to us. Now, instead of being anxious about his speech, we celebrate his other gifts and seek to nurture his interests and talents. Because of the shift in our perception, our son is happier and is seems to be thriving.
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A later talker with a late talking child ( pengl93 )
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 child with autism just because he is late talking. I started talking at the same age as my son, and quickly picked up. By 4 I was talking no stop. My family background fits the profile perfectly. My parents are engineer and teacher. Both I and my spouse are scientists and play music instruments. My son is extremely strong will and has excellent memory. Now he is surprising me everyday with new words. He is still behind but he has an amazing learning speed, thank for his good memory.
I give this book four start, because parents with real autism child may use this book to put themselves into denial. I suggest parents buy this book also do research on autism before switching the autism label with the Einstein syndrome.
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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 and makes pretty good eye contact. She doesn't obsess over things either.
Several professionals have told us that she is smart - quick to solve difficult puzzles, good at following directions, and on target for motor skills.
Two psychologists have expressed doubt about the autism diagnosis after spending a lot of time with her. We now doubt that this is autism as well.
But as this book points out, when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And that is what so many doctors, psychiatrists and other professionals are doing with the autism spectrum - They toss every kid on the spectrum. If your kid has autism, accept it. But be open to other possibilities - namely that your kid is a late talker. Its hard to know what to do - even with helpful books like this one.
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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 4 year children; not always completing them, but enjoys the challenge until he gets too frustrated.
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